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| 11:34am UK, Friday December 07, 2007 |
A new book which includes a suggestion the parents of Madeleine McCann were responsible for their daughter's disappearance is "rubbish", according to the family's spokesman.
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The book
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The book title offends the family
Clarence
Mitchell has been responding to claims that
a conspiracy was hatched by Gerry and Kate
McCann before they set off on their fateful
holiday in Praia da Luz.
The
Portuguese book - with a translated title of
The Guilt Of The McCanns - is said to allege
that the couple had already decided that
Madeleine would be reported as a kidnap
victim.
Publicity
from the publishers says it is a
"non-fiction book entirely faithful to the
events and the steps of the (police)
investigation".
It has
been written by Manuel Catarino,
editor-in-chief of Correio da Manha, a racy
Portuguese tabloid newspaper.
His book is said to be "not a finish line but a start point".
"This book
is basically a journalistic work," say the
publishers. "It doesn't point an accusatory
finger to the McCanns."
Mr
Mitchell dismisses the book - and its title:
"You can imagine the pain and anguish that
this sort of rubbish brings Kate and Gerry."
The couple's lawyers are said to be considering legal action.
