A consultant cardiologist from Leicestershire whose daughter Madeleine, aged three, disappeared during a family holiday in Portugal in May 2007. Dr McCann, his wife Kate and their holiday companions were the subject of multiple libels in national newspapers, for some of which they sued and received damages.
A Leicestershire doctor whose daughter Madeleine, aged three, disappeared during a family holiday in Portugal in May 2007. Dr McCann, her husband Gerry and their holiday companions were the subject of multiple libels in national newspapers, for some of which they sued and received damages.
British journalist, formerly of the News of the World. As a junior reporter, he was responsible for writing an article publishing Dr Kate McCann’s translated diary, detailing events of the weeks after her daughter’s disappearance. He gave evidence to the Inquiry of acquiring the diary, which had been translated into Portuguese, and said that he had “felt bad”. The decision to publish was not his, he said.