Published: Today

 

A PORTUGUESE police union boss has branded the McCanns’ spokesman a LIAR.

Carlos Anjos said of Clarence Mitchell: “He lies with as many teeth as he has in his mouth.”

The president of Portugal’s Police Federation accused the former BBC man of leaking police statements Kate and Gerry made within hours of Maddie disappearing last May.

These were aired on Spanish TV last week.

Anjos said the aim was to give the McCanns an excuse not to attend a reconstruction.

Mr Mitchell, 46, said: “It is categorically untrue that I leaked them. There was absolutely no benefit for us to do that.”

Nacho Abad, the Spanish journalist who obtained the statements, said: “Clarence Mitchell was not the source. The family did not leak it.”