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| Kate McCann: my son asked about police chief's Madeleine claims | Kate McCann: my son asked about police chief's Madeleine claims |
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| Kate McCann has told a court that her young son asked her about allegations by a former Portuguese police chief that she was involved in her daughter Madeleine's disappearance. | Kate McCann has told a court that her young son asked her about allegations by a former Portuguese police chief that she was involved in her daughter Madeleine's disappearance. |
| McCann was delivering a personal statement at Lisbon's palace of justice in a libel case that she and husband, Gerry, have brought against Gonçalo Amaral over claims he made in a book about their role in the disappearance of their daughter from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, in 2007. | |
| She said her son Sean heard about Amaral's allegations on the radio while travelling on the school bus. | |
| "Sean asked me in October 'Mr Amaral said you hid Madeleine'. I just said that he said a lot of silly things," she said. | "Sean asked me in October 'Mr Amaral said you hid Madeleine'. I just said that he said a lot of silly things," she said. |
| Sean and his twin sister Amelie were aged two when Madeleine, who was nearly four, went missing. | Sean and his twin sister Amelie were aged two when Madeleine, who was nearly four, went missing. |