Kate and Gerry McCann have both requested to give evidence in a libel trial against a former Portuguese police chief. Their pain over the disappearance of their daughter was "multiplied 100 times" by a book by the officer, a court has heard.
The mother of missing girl Madeleine McCann had suicidal thoughts after a Portuguese police chief claimed in a book that she had covered up her daughter’s death, a libel trial reportedly heard.
Kate McCann “thought about not being around anymore” after the publication of Goncalo Amaral’s book, ‘The Truth of the Lie’, according to psychologist Alan Pike, who supported the parents after their daughter disappeared in 2007.
According to AFP News Agency, Pike told the court about Kate McCann’s feelings in an on-going libel trial in Portugal:
“Kate talked about not being around anymore, and referred to killing herself as an option. I deduced it was an indication of how she felt rather than something she ever intended to do.”
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