Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat And More Questions
MADELEINE McCann is missing. Still missing.
But today there is news. The daily front-page shots of Madeleine’s traumatised parents are moved further within the papers to make space for the head of Robert Murat.
“MADELEINE BRITISH MAN IS QUIZZED!” says the Mirror’s front-page headline.
Robert Murat
After the speculation the paper delivers a welter of facts. Robert Murat lives with his mum. Robert Murat is in his 30s. Robert Murat lives with his mother in a villa 150 yards from the apartment where Madeleine McCann was snatched.
The Sun (“MADDIE: BRIT QUIZZED”) says Murat lives 100 yards from that McCann apartment. Like the Mirror, the Sun produces a front-page picture of “one-eyed Murat”. The Mail hears that Murat lost his eye in a BMX accident when he was a boy. The Mail says Murat lives 80 yards from Madeleine’s holiday apartment.
Murat is “stocky”. He offered to help the police hunt as a “translator”. He lives in Casa Liliana, with his mum Jenny.
The Suspect
The Sun’s Julie Moult considers the evidence. And delivers a piece entitled “stories of a fantasist”. “He always seemed so eager to get involved in the police investigation,” says the Sun’s woman–on-the-scene. “Robert claimed he had a daughter just like Madeleine and said he felt compelled to do anything he could. But to me he seemed like classic fantasist.”
The Sun introduces Martin Brunt, the crime news correspondent from its sister organ, TV’s Sky news.
He says Murat told him he’d been taken inside the McCanns’ apartment by police.
Sky news correspondent Ian Woods says he asked Murat to help him speak with locals.
“I met him and had a conversation with him. I tried to find out as much as I could about him,” says Woods, who checked out Murat’s details. “They did check out, and I left it at that for the time.”
The Mail’s Neil Sears also spots Murat. In “My encounters with a man ‘who just wanted to help’”, Sears tells Mail readers, “There was something more to the friendly expat who called himself ‘Rob’ than met the eye.”
Murat made Sears “feel slightly uncomfortable”.
But it was the Sunday Mirror’s Lori Cambell who alerted police to Murat’s behaviour, she saw as “creepy”.
Writing Wrongs
So much for investigative journalism. Questions were asked but nothing more was done. Murat is with police because he made a show of himself, because he acted as if working in an official capacity. Even though the Times says Murat was acting as “an official translator”.
So now the man in the chinos, with the glass eye, who lives with him mum and whose estranged wife, from Hockering, near Norwich, tells a neighbour “How could someone do something so terrible to little girl like that?’ is all over the papers.
Is Murat guilty? The papers produce nothing to indicate that he is. But if Murat is involved, look out for the stories of how British journalism cracked the case.
And look out for Madeleine McCann. Still missing…
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May 16th, 2007 at 1:05 am
thats why i didnt ask ‘phoebe’ where she hadheard it…as i felt that it might be te same person … such odd people, but thats the internet or you :-/
May 16th, 2007 at 1:03 am
It was suss as suddenly two posts (From supposed different people) appeared with no news on-line, which is always unusual!
Ahh well, that’s ‘their’ way of passing time, unfortunate.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:03 am
jeff, dont appologise… we are all going thru the same things inour head, as iv said a few times on here,my lil girl is 3…& i work with abused children, i have everything u ca possibly imagine in my head… & i thik it about m own child too…u jus cant help it can you…
x
we need closure on here… & it hurts, iv cried so many times since she wen missing but it doesnt even come close to what those who knew her are feeling…
May 16th, 2007 at 1:02 am
i think we all feel the same jeff, i have work at 6 am, and a daughter that turns 4 next week. i haven’t slept for days. multipy this by a million and you may come close to what her parents are feeling i guess.
and yes jeff, we live we die the worms eat us !
May 16th, 2007 at 1:00 am
yeah, i was gong to ay in a moment he was quiet…
how sad…& sick…
May 16th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Well, seeing as we are expressing our beliefs as such, I don’t have any … we’re here, we live and we die, nothing else there. (IMPO)
Still doesn’t bring this little girl home :o(
Every time I look at a picture of her, I think of my own child, then being in a similar position, then I think of all the possibilities of what could have happened to Madeleine, a 1001 things fly through my mind, then I feel a complete feeling of helplessness, maybe a tear or two … A sad sad world we live in.
Grr, can’t stop going over this … Sorry for my rambles!
May 16th, 2007 at 12:59 am
hasnt alan gone quiet, i guess some people just have to stir the pot
http://www.afrol.com/regions/north_africa
main african news agency, no reports of dead children, i’m sure you gave him the attention he craved, some people just get off on this sort of thing
May 16th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Kath… thats amazing, i find ths sort of thing so fascinating, i say im not sure if i believe.. but it kind of does give me hope, ty
May 16th, 2007 at 12:53 am
i too believe that earth is quite possibly hell… but my friend kev is a budhist, & he believes in karma etc… but to me its hard to imagine that maddys ’soul’ might have done some terible things in a previous life, & this is her punishment… its all too much, & too big to explore on here… just thought id say…
May 16th, 2007 at 12:52 am
jeff, she phoned the portuguese police the day after madeleine went missing, she told them she had been taken by a german women with blonde hair. and when she took maddy the breeze was making maddies hair blow, i assuming she is suggesting that maddie had wandered outside. she says maddie was then taken to gibraltar by 2 men and this german woman and was there before the sun rose. she is frightened but alive.
I have goosebumps
May 16th, 2007 at 12:49 am
jeff don’t talk to me about faith, if there was ever a god he gave up on this world as a lost cause a long time ago, why would any god inflict the things that this world does on tiny innocent children. and if there is a hell then earth is it!
May 16th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Kath, I also find things like that hard to swallow - did she tell you BEFORE the events of late?
May 16th, 2007 at 12:47 am
yes kath, i am too…but i love to hear about it, its really interesting
a woman said on ‘yahoo answers’ that a psychic in usa who helped find a missing boy scout thinks thatmadd is in prague & a german woman is inolved x
May 16th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Was there any faith in the first place? There have always been sick people in the world, and there always will be.
How often do things like this take place where there isn’t a great deal of media coverage?
May 16th, 2007 at 12:43 am
my point was about the psychic friend of mine anyway, tho u only picked what u wanted out of my post.
as i said, from day 2 she has stated 2 men and a german woman, and she says maddie is alive, i am inclined to believe her, as the suspects are so close to what she said it is scary
ps. i am a cynic when it comes to anything supernatural
May 16th, 2007 at 12:42 am
i hope she is alive, that would be amazing, i wory about my little girl so much, & to for once have a happy ending to the sick things that happen in the world, that would be truly amazing, & possible restore my faith in humaity a little bit…
May 16th, 2007 at 12:39 am
i tend to agree with kath at this moment, no disrespect but I think she is still alive
May 16th, 2007 at 12:39 am
yes kath…thats why i said, weare all just waiting etc… we all have different views, & now it seems thngs might be moving along, it seems kind of pointless to me to go over who would or wouldnt leave their kids, or anythin else thats been said on here…
x
May 16th, 2007 at 12:35 am
i’ll believe a body has been found when i can find it on a news website or television. not when some guy called alan tells me on a blogsite.
no disrespect x
May 16th, 2007 at 12:34 am
Well, it has been rumoured by one person that a body has been found, but yes, we are waiting, and we all want the same outcome.
On the blaming parents though - I don’t blame them, I wouldn’t leave my child personally, but I CAN understand why they would have a sense of security that would lead them to leave their children while they went for a meal…
May 16th, 2007 at 12:31 am
kath, no offence , but we are all a bit passed the ’slagging off’ period,as im sure you have aread, it seems a body has been found… so we are just waiting, together…
all wanting the same… x
May 16th, 2007 at 12:29 am
firstly, i am glad all you people blaming the parents are such perfect people you have never made a mistake! hindsight is a wonderful thing.
my friend is a psychic and on the second day maddie was missing she called portuguese the police as she says the german cleaner took her a lady with blonde hair. and she was assisted by 2 men. suddenly this news seems to be coming true, she is convinced she alive and holed up on the rock of gibraltar.
the police treated her like a crazy woman, and wouldn’t listen to anything she says
i just pray maddie is alive and will be back with her parents soon. the only person to blame is the sick b@stard who took her
May 16th, 2007 at 12:26 am
*taps fingers*
May 16th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Nothing on the Moroccan site.
May 16th, 2007 at 12:22 am
thanks alan…:)
May 16th, 2007 at 12:21 am
listen will call my friend now leave it with me will get more info
May 16th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Yep - I’ve been on all sorts of news sites looking for updates, nothing yet …
2 + 6 = 8 … getting better :o)
May 16th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Anonymous - please do!!!
May 16th, 2007 at 12:17 am
i dont know anything else im afraid
May 16th, 2007 at 12:17 am
just looked on world news including africa and portugal and nothing yet