Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat’s Relief
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DAILY MIRROR: “Murat: It’s big relief”
Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat, 34, last night spoke of his joy that he looks likely to be officially cleared in days.
After having his computers returned, he said at his Praia da Luz home last night: “I’m so relieved.”
No mention of the Mirror’s super sleuth Lori Campbell who fingered “weird” Murat.
DAILY MAIL: “Murat could soon be cleared as Madeleine suspect after police return his possessions”
Even his computer - with the Sun’s “kid porn”.
His lawyer Francisco Pagarete said: “The police received an order from the public prosecutor to give everything back to Robert. All his items have been returned. We believe it is another step towards his clearance as a suspect. It’s a good sign.
“But we will have to wait and see. There is nothing official saying his status as an arguido is being revoked.”
Even if yesterday the Sunday People had “CLEARED” him.
No word from the The Mail’s Neil Sears, who told us: “There was something more to the friendly expat who called himself ‘Rob’ than met the eye.” Murat made Sears “feel slightly uncomfortable”.
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Robert Murat close to being cleared over Madeleine McCann disappearance”
Robert Murat has moved a step closer to being cleared as a suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance after police returned possessions seized from him 10 months ago.
Says hi mother, Jenny Murat, 74: “Every single item that the police took has been returned to us. Of course we hope it means Robert’s arguido status will be lifted shortly. But we’ve had no official confirmation that that is the case and we’re not getting too excited.”
Madeleine McCann: Speculation and survival
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March 24th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
523
DCB
Like the Bridget O’Donnell article, the one by David James Smith in December was seen as a very detailed piece and it revealed a lot of information. On the face of it, Mr Smith had no more access to information than any other journalist but he reveals an immense amount of previously unavailable detail. For instance, it describes the wine that the McCanns bought from the supermarket.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Stevo,
Did you see that Garth claims to be a property developer rather than a bin man?
March 24th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
379 DuncanR
Just back in from afternoon out and read your post…I informed Garth that I would no longer respond to his personal attacks on me in post 288. This was followed by increasingly nasty patronising and rude posts from Garth in posts 313/314/318/356/358/362 and 365, in fact right up until you posted.
I, like Garth, can stick up for myself BUT having refused to be drawn in by him was then subjected to more abuse. Having been ‘told’ he then disappears..
He cant have it every which way….
March 24th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
522
Stevo
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So is it an impartial article?
March 24th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
519
Stevo
I think you know the answer to that one!
March 24th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
David James Smith article:
“One of the PJ officers had put on surgical gloves and begun trying to dust down the bedroom, but his powder was not working properly. He tried to take the McCanns’ fingerprints for elimination, but that didn’t work either. It all had to be done again the next day.”
So, the PJ did do proper forensics immediately then…
March 24th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
517 Maria Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
“I wish I’d got all the copies of each paper to make a full and detailed comparison because I’m only speaking from memory. I just remember a lot of ordinary people, my colleagues, definitely the people I bump into in my local newsagents, including the owner…”
You always claimed you were from the USA….!
March 24th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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DCB Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
510
Denzylle
Who knows, now, what to believe?
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Exactly - i have stopped believing anything that is not a direct quote from a named source, or an actual interview.
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I should have added that even then people will draw a different conclusion.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Distrurbingly from the David James Smith article:
“Gerry had asked the departing PJ detectives at half three about contacting the media to make an appeal. One of the officers had reacted with surprising agitation, waving his hand emphatically: “No journalists! No journalists!”
Why the McCann’s absolute insistence on involving the media before the police arrived around midnight on May 3/4?
March 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Guardian.co.uk May 4, 2007
Speaking to the BBC later, Ms Renwick said the McCanns, who had been holidaying with three other British families, had felt let down by police in Portugal. “I spoke to them this morning and they said the police had done nothing overnight and they felt as if they’d been left on their own. They just don’t know where to turn.”
However, Mr Hill said the police had been doing all they could. He said around 60 staff and guests at the complex had searched until 4.30am while police notified border police, Spanish police and airports.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
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Stevo Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
What is the difference with this story by the Daily Mail and any story by the Express?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484850&in_page_id=1811
“Madeleine McCann died in a fall down a flight of stairs at her parents’ holiday apartment, Portuguese police claimed yesterday in the latest leak from inside the investigation.”
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Hi Stevo.
First, I think it’s the presentation, especially headlines, which count. The Express would have a huge, lurid headline, usually supposedly saved from libel by putting inverted commas around it (small!) to show that they were quoting from the Portiguese press, a ortuguese leak, or whatever. As CM said, occasionally they even left out the inverted commas. I think the Mail was just a bit less lurid and melodramatic and perhaps usually made it clearer that they were quoting some “source” or other.
But I also think the other factor was the Express’s insistence on having almost daily headlines whereas other papers sometimes left out the story or put it inside.
I wish I’d got all the copies of each paper to make a full and detailed comparison because I’m only speaking from memory. I just remember a lot of ordinary people, my colleagues, definitely the people I bump into in my local newsagents, including the owner, particularly singling out the Express for censure in the way they presented this story…….and every story, if it comes to that! I was in Italy last summer when the “blood in the apartment” story broke. Some of the British people buying the English papers in the local village shop were absolutely disgusted by the Express. One woman actually stopped her husband buying it even though he liked the puzzles in it and had “read it for thirty five years and my Dad before me” as he said! There was rather an embarrassing quarrel, I recall….but she won! He had to make do with an even older copy of the Times!
Probably just a matter of degree, though, and considered over months rather than any one partiular edition. Maybe the Mail had an occasional balancing article as well? I don’t remember. The other thing is that the Express group also contains the Star……….nuff said! They were even more stupidy vile, although, of course, various bits of female anatomy did sometimes obscure everything else……..
Anyway, maybe the McCanns will move on to other papers soon……..! If I was innocent, I certainly would!
Hope Murat is already planning his case. He deserves serious compensation as well even though it’s a longer time ago that he was vilified and it didn’t last nearly as long as the smear campaign against the McCanns. Look back at the Anorak archives if you want to see how he was treated….
If the Mcs turn out to be guilty, presumably the Express will have a moment of glory? Even if they do, it was still deplorable “journalism”.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
512
Stevo
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Different people will deduce different things from reading the same thing.
“The twins slept on like logs, just as they always did at home, though even their parents were fleetingly worried – had they been sedated by an abductor? – that they should be quite so comatose. The Ocean Club gave them another apartment, but the McCanns did not want to be alone, so the twins were taken to the Paynes’ apartment, and Kate and Gerry went there later too, to try to rest.
They got up at first light and went to search alone on the open scrubland beyond the resort, wandering around, calling Madeleine’s name. It was cold and lonely – there was no answer. “
March 24th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
511…DCB
Indeed we do….lots of people who accredit that very matter.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
510
Denzylle
Who knows, now, what to believe?
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Exactly - i have stopped believing anything that is not a direct quote from a named source, or an actual interview.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
510…Denzylle
I tend to doubt anyone who tries to denigrate others and the Police regarding
any “searching” done…while at the same time promulgating their own
“solitary”activities.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
504
DCB
It doesn’t say who “they” are in the context of searching. If you read two paragraphs before that comment, it could mean the PJ got up early to search for Madeleine. It reads that way.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
508
Matt
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But we know others searched on the night - don’t forgot Jez watched them from the balcony.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
DCB
504
Who knows, now, what to believe?
I do remember the story about them searching at first light, alone (ie. no police) from the very first days of news.
But since then - we have heard that the police were, indeed, out searching overnight, and also, in Kate’s own words on ‘W’s Hour’ that she herself didn’t go out searching.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
YAMPSTER, that would be nice: can you explain us what you meant with the “deserted fairground” and the “shifty caretaker”?
March 24th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
507…DCB
Indeed…..it also gives an impression that no one else was bothered
to “search” at the time.
Pure McCannSpinnisms.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
506
Matt
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Just an example of selective reading of articles.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
504…DCB
So…that’s what they said.
Seeing as there were no ne else as a witness to that.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Châtelaine/Denzylle
Now Yampster is here maybe he will explain. Yes it could be about that guy, but wasn’t that more of a playground than a deserted fairground, and who’s to say he was the caretaker?
As for “Hotwater” I am of Irish extract and in my experience the Irish aren’t at all stupid - but pretty much anything can happen when they’re around! That’s not at all an insult, just to say they are fairly off the wall compared to the Anglo-Saxons.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
501 Stevo:
From the same article:
“…They got up at first light and went to search alone on the open scrubland beyond the resort, wandering around, calling Madeleine’s name. It was cold and lonely – there was no answer…..”
But no -one on here believes the Mccanns did any searching.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Yampster!
Maybe you could explain the fairground post, as its author.
PS Everyone knows custody dads go to McDonalds on a bank holiday Monday.
Just a joke before everyone jumps on me…
March 24th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
497 Denzylle
I was in a pharmacy last Sunday and the booze was cordoned off. I tried to buy a bottle of Tequila and they said I couldn’t buy it because it was a Sunday. It may be a state thing as you say. I’m due west of DC. Not really what I’d call bible belt although Kentucky up the road has several dry counties.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Interesting going over old articles and news.
“He would get a hard time from the police because of this, during his interviews not long afterwards, being aggressively accused of taking Madeleine – you passed her out of the window, didn’t you! – being suspected because he had offered to take Kate’s turn.”
Why then wasn’t Oldfield made arguido?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3040094.ece
March 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
The post about the deserted fairground and a shift caretaker -
I’m taking it out of context, not having finished reading yesterday’s posts, but isn’t it a ref. to the photograph of MM on a slide with a shady person in the background?
March 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Stevo 466
To be honest I don’t know what to make of the taxi story. In some ways it runs like a Guy Richie script - four adults in a car, with an abducted child, a plan afoot to switch vehicles near the border, perhaps something goes wrong with the first car (e.g. flat tyre, Guy Richie as I say) so they have to catch a taxi to get to the second vehicle, the blue jeep. Then some of them continue the journey into Spain while at least one of them manages to get back to PDL before the abduction is discovered.
Oh yes, almost forgot, the abductee’s parents see the child in bed in PDL while all this is going on, and one of their friends sees a man carrying what could be the child not long before the balloon goes up. Meanwhile according to Gandy the priest wasn’t seen this weekend, funny time Easter for a RC priest to have a holiday. All we need is Vinny Jones, and for Eddie to swallow the diamond…
March 24th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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Abraham Zapruder Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Does anyone know what this post meant last night?
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• 259 yampster Says: March 24th, 2008 at 12:56 am 258 val ‘WE’ have been fooled?? Speak for yourself Has anyone checked that old deserted fairground yet? The caretaker looks a bit shifty to me. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Anyone heard anything about an old deserted fairground with a shifty caretaker? Sounds like a Stephen King novel?!?!
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Yes, I saw that too Abraham Z, but it was too late [we are +1 hour here] to follow. I read the other posts this morning, but nobody had reacted.
It was in fact a bit of a strange act with cryptic texts, misquoting posts and sudden “new” posters coming in, like a Hotwater [sic] claiming MM would be found in Ireland, if I remember well.