A POLICE inspector working in the Madeleine McCann case is being accused of attacking a witness and making false declarations in a missing child’s investigation that took place in 2004.
Leonor Cipriano, the mother of Joana Cipriano, a nine-year-old girl who his missing since that year from Figueira, a small village near Portimão, accused five investigators of attacking her brutally to get a guilty declaration on the murder of her daughter.
She never identified the aggressors, but inspector Gonçalo Amaral, one of the head investigators at the Portimão Polícia Judiciária, who is now involved in the search for Madeleine McCann, saw his name on the list of the accused by the Public Ministery.
The aggression case was filed and Joana’s mother, along with her brother (João Cipriano) were later sentenced in 2006 to 20 and 19 years respectively, accused of killing, destroying and hiding Joana’s body. The little girl was never found and some theories say she was not killed, but sold by the mother to an illegal adoption network.
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