The death of a private detective accused of conning the parents of Madeleine McCann out of £300,000 has been ruled not suspicious.
Controversial investigator Kevin Halligen was 56 when he was found dead at his home in Guildford, Surrey, in January 2018 – with police initially treating his death as “unexplained”.
However, a coroner has now declared there were “no suspicious circumstances” involved in his death – after previous reports in 2018 confirmed Mr Halligen died from a brain haemorrhage following a fall.
Mr Halligen created headlines in 2008 amid allegations he had misused £300,000 of public money after being hired by Kate and Gerry McCann to assist in the search for missing daughter Madeleine, who went missing in Portugal in 2007,
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