The parents of Madeleine McCann had to use funds raised to search for their daughter to fight an ex-police officer who made “unfounded” claims about the case.
Last September, Kate and Gerry McCann lost a 13-year libel battle with Goncalo Amaral, who had suggested they were involved in their daughter’s disappearance.
Accounts for Madeleine’s Fund, a not-for-profit company, reveal it paid £6,695 in legal costs “in relation to a libel action in Portugal brought by Gerald and Kate McCann”.
