Tavares Almeida is the deputy head of the inquiry into the four-year-old’s disappearance but recently asked to be taken off the case on unpaid leave.

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Today it emerged that he is facing trial for inflicting a severe beating on innocent man along with two other police officers.

The Chief Inspector is the second officer involved in the case to be implicated in the violent treatment of police suspects.

Disgraced inquiry head Goncalo Amaral — who was last week spectacularly kicked off the case after he said British police were being manipulated by Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry — is fighting claims he covered up the beating of another missing girl’s mother.

Leonor Cipriano, 36, says she was forced to kneel on glass ashtrays with a bag over her head as police repeatedly hit her during almost 48 hours of questioning.

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