Madeleine Mccann
Madeleine McCann
Madeleine McCann was born in Leicester and lived with her family in Rothley, Leicestershire. At her parents’ request, she was made a ward of court in England shortly after the disappearance, which gave the court statutory powers to act on her behalf.Police described Madeleine as blonde-haired, with blue-green eyes, a small brown spot on her left calf, and a distinctive dark strip on the iris of her right eye. In 2009 the McCanns released age-progressedimages of how she may have looked at age six, and in 2012 Scotland Yard commissioned one of her at age nine.
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Gerry & Kate Mccann
Madeleine’s parents are both physicians and practising Roman Catholics. Kate Marie McCann, née Healy (born 1968, Huyton, near Liverpool) attended All Saints School in Anfield, then Notre Dame High School in Everton Valley, graduating in 1992 with a degree in medicine from the University of Dundee. She moved briefly into obstetrics and gynaecology, then anaesthetics, and finally general practice.
TAPAS 7Description
The Tapas 7 became an integral part of the Madeleine McCann investigation after she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment on May 3 2007.
Kate and Gerry McCann’s seven friends – three couples and the mother of one of the mums – joined the McCanns in Portugal’s Praia da Luz for a joint holiday and the nine adults (along with their eight children) spent time together during their vacation.
The group of adults were dubbed the Tapas 7 as they were dining with Gerry and Kate at the hotel complex’s tapas restaurant on the night Madeleine went missing.
Each of them willingly co-operated with the Portuguese and British police investigation and none were ever made ‘arguido’ – persons of interest – in the enquiries.
Gonçalo AmaralDescription
The former chief inspector of the Portuguese Judicial Police, Gonçalo Amaral, was the operations coordinator of the Madeleine McCann case for just six months, between May and October 2007, when he was removed from the investigation because of his criticism of the British police. Since then, the ex-cop has persistently defended the guilt of the parents in the girl’s death, against the official investigation, whose main suspect is the German rapist Christian Brueckner, recently charged.
The trigger for Amaral’s dismissal as head of the case in 2007 was statements to the Portuguese press in which he accused British investigators of favouring the parents of the missing girl by only following leads that excluded them as suspects. This triggered a controversy that forced the then Portuguese Justice Minister Alberto Costa to assure that cooperation between police forces was fruitful and resulted in Amaral’s head.