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Madeleine McCann’s parents will find out next week if they have won a legal battle against a former police officer who suggested they were involved in her disappearance.
Kate and Gerry McCann sued Goncalo Amaral over his book The Truth Of The Lie in 2008.
It was just a year after Madeleine vanished – and they have been locked in a bitter battle since.
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They are appealing to the European Court of Human Rights after Portugal’s highest court threw out their claim.
Initially, they won the first round of the battle and an injunction was granted to prevent further sales of the book.
Amaral, 62, appealed and, after years of litigation, won in 2017 with a ruling he was entitled to “freedom of expression”. The McCanns then went to the ECHR, which has now said that its judgement will be published on Tuesday.
Technically, the case is against Portugal’s justice system, not Amaral.
But if they lose they could be forced to pay huge costs.
Paperwork lodged with the court shows that the McCanns, who deny any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance, claim the allegations in the book and a documentary “infringed their right to respect for their private life and their right to presumption of innocence”.
The court said the judgement would be published on Tuesday.
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