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16/10/2008
'Tapas Seven' Receive Damages From Newspaper
Seven people who were on holiday with Kate and Gerry McCann when their daughter Madeleine disappeared have received a "substantial" libel payout from a newspaper group.
Express Newspapers paid £375,000 in damages to the so-called 'Tapas Seven' and have printed an apology to the group in the Thursday edition of the Daily Express and Daily Star papers. The friends of the McCann's said they would donate the money to the official Find Madeleine Fund.
The seven are Jane Tanner, Russell O'Brien, Rachael and Matthew Oldfield, Fiona and David Payne, and Mrs Payne's mother Dianne Webster.
The apology from Express Newspapers read: "In articles published between July and December last year we suggested that the holiday companions of Kate and Gerry McCann might have covered up the true facts concerning Madeleine McCann's disappearance and/or misled the authorities investigation her disappearance.
"We also reported speculation that one member of the group, Dr Russell O'Brien, was suspected of involvement with Madeleine's abduction. We now accept that these suggestions should never have been made and were completely untrue."
Speaking outside court, Fiona Payne said the pay-out "changed little" because Madeleine was still missing.
She also said the friends felt the stories about them had been "detrimental to the search for Madeleine".
Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, went missing in Portugal in May 2007. She was aged three at the time of her disappearance.
The apologies are expected to be repeated in the Sunday Express.
(JM)
Express Newspapers paid £375,000 in damages to the so-called 'Tapas Seven' and have printed an apology to the group in the Thursday edition of the Daily Express and Daily Star papers. The friends of the McCann's said they would donate the money to the official Find Madeleine Fund.
The seven are Jane Tanner, Russell O'Brien, Rachael and Matthew Oldfield, Fiona and David Payne, and Mrs Payne's mother Dianne Webster.
The apology from Express Newspapers read: "In articles published between July and December last year we suggested that the holiday companions of Kate and Gerry McCann might have covered up the true facts concerning Madeleine McCann's disappearance and/or misled the authorities investigation her disappearance.
"We also reported speculation that one member of the group, Dr Russell O'Brien, was suspected of involvement with Madeleine's abduction. We now accept that these suggestions should never have been made and were completely untrue."
Speaking outside court, Fiona Payne said the pay-out "changed little" because Madeleine was still missing.
She also said the friends felt the stories about them had been "detrimental to the search for Madeleine".
Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, went missing in Portugal in May 2007. She was aged three at the time of her disappearance.
The apologies are expected to be repeated in the Sunday Express.
(JM)
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