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…
May 15th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Personally, I think Madeleine is still alive. I just hope the sadistic person who took her gives her back to her parents. How can anybody be so sick?
May 15th, 2007 at 11:00 am
I think that the detedtives that have gone out to Portugal are highly trained and specialists in such things as criminal profiling, and are working on the case from the perspective of the possible kidnappers profile.
I seem to remember that many criminals return to the scene of a crime, or like to remain closely involved in many aspects of the subsequent investigations, even where possibel from the inside as well as the outside.
Sound like that’s the way it’s breaking, I only hope that they do get to the bottom of this and that little Maddy is safely returned to her family.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:20 am
i too hope madeleine is safe after all this.
i hope that the portugese police are also searching the market as this is where the scent of madeleine stopped-also the man who is the suspect knew the manager of the market as he(the suspect) phoned him to open the market when the police where needing water.
i know this is speculation but everything needs looking into.
i hope to god she returns to her family safe.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Murat? what a name!!! screams guilt all overt the place if you ask me!
May 15th, 2007 at 11:31 am
You work for the Mirror, Alex?
May 15th, 2007 at 11:35 am
No, it’s just the sort of name I’d give a villan if I were writing a book… LOL
May 15th, 2007 at 11:45 am
They keep saying they have 3 people for questioning, obviously Murat and his mother but who else - does anyone know?
May 15th, 2007 at 11:47 am
i think she is still alive however i doubt very much that she is even still in the country, i hope the twisted person who has took her will give her back to her family soon but if they were that twisted to take her in the first place whos to say they will
May 15th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Remember how Ian Huntley was so keen to help police and reporters in the hunt for the the Soham girls, Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman ?
There are similarities here that cannot have escaped the attention of forensic phsycologists and the police dealing with this case. I pray to God that Murat can lead them to the girl in time.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
i think this murat dude is odd… the person who mentioned criminals returning to the scene of the crime etc… is spot on!
classic signs…
but if it his him, then surely she is dead…beacause he certanly isnt feeding her or anything, if hes out & about playing ‘official translator’
someone said to me that as his mum is possibly invlovled, maddie is probably still alive, because women are far more compassionate than men…pffffffft… if you ask me, if the mum is involved, its to protect her son. shes found out what hes done, & wants to protect him, so shes trying to look as helpful as possible
my lilttle girl is 3 … & this breaks my heart!
we all know that no one comes home alive these days…