Madeleine McCann: ‘Creepy’ Robert Murat Sues Media, FBI Investigates And Hating Kate McCann
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN: “McCanns want an FBI probe”
The FBI is America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation. Madeleine McCann is British child who went missing in Portugal.
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “We believe Portuguese police have been found wanting. We are asking the British Government to call for such an inquiry. It’s important for Madeleine and other missing children.”
But what of the FBI?
Kate and Gerry want a panel of missing children experts, including former US and Met police, to look at how the inquiry team handled itself.
So not an FBI probe, rather an investigation by a group of which some may be American. Read all about it!
THE GUARDIAN: “McCann case suspect issues record number of libel writs.”
One of the formal suspects in the Madeleine McCann case is to sue 12 media outlets in what may be one of the largest libel claims in the history of the British media.
It’s “creepy” “oddball” Robert Murat:
Robert Murat is demanding damages from 11 newspapers and one TV station. It is the largest number of claims ever made against different British media outlets on the same issue.
Simons Muirhead and Burton, a London-based law firm, confirmed it was “representing Robert Murat in respect of a number of libel actions”.
The case is being brought against Sky, the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Metro, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, News of the World, Sun and the Scotsman.
The Mirror’s Lori Campbell told the police of the “creepy” Murat. But why did she tell the press?
Watching Robert Murat
THE HERALD: “Madeleine suspect Murat could win £2m suing UK media”
Caroline Kean, of media law specialists Wiggin, said that if Mr Murat successfully argued the papers inferred he was involved in Madeleine’s abduction or murder, he could win a record payout.
She said: “You could expect £200,000 per paper, per claim, and that would clear £2m.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann ’suspect’ Robert Murat sues British media for libel”
He and his family are believed to be particularly aggrieved by a number of reports in the aftermath of his being made an arguido - or official suspect - which repeated claims made by Portuguese media.
In at least one case - the false allegation that there were pornographic images on his computer - the Portuguese media later published corrections.
THE TIMES: “Brits love to torture a ‘bad mother’”
Says Melanie Reid: “In a long media career, the persecution of Kate McCann is the cruellest thing I have seen.”
Crueller than the media’s take on Robert Murat?
How many centuries of accumulated spite and misogyny, I wonder, went into the latest twist in the Madeleine McCann saga.
Did the British television presenters feel the remotest twinge of conscience as they sensationally reported - second-hand via a Spanish television station - the leaks from the Portuguese police portraying Kate McCann in the worst possible light, as a mother who had left her children to cry?
And did Britain’s tabloid editors, themselves presumably sons of mothers and husbands to the mothers of their own children, flinch even a jot as they ordered the devastating headlines “Mummy, why didn’t you come when we cried?” to be unfurled on their front pages alongside the face of the missing little girl?
I have seen, lived with and been party to many different kinds of sadism in a long media career, but I honestly think that this latest outbreak of malice towards Kate McCann is just about the cruellest thing I have witnessed…
But somehow we have passed a watershed. With this latest betrayal, picking deep at Kate McCann’s emotional scars, we have regressed to the level of the medieval peasants reaching for the ducking stool. Although women suspected of being witches, I sometimes grimly think, received a fairer fate in their slow drowning than do modern women accused of being bad mothers, who are tortured to the point of mental disintegration.
And then the clincher:
Why do we do perpetuate this immense cruelty upon women? There is no justice in it. Kate McCann is just the latest in a long line of high-profile victims of the prevailing fatwa - that all mothers must be perfect, self-sacrificing angels. From Kate McCann to Louise Campbell (the mother of Molly/ Misbah, the Scots girl who fled to be with her father in Pakistan), to Britney Spears to Anne Robinson to Frances Shand Kydd, nobody loves to torture a perceived bad mother or a bolter like the British do.
Yeah, Britney Spears, Princess Diana’s mother and a BBC quiz show host are like Kate McCann, a woman whose child went missing and is an “arguido” in the case. Good of Ms Reid to point that out.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:35 am
MURAT goes to the PJ’s Re-enactment
The Englishman did not impose any conditions to enter in the PJ’s re-enactment
The first suspect of Maddie’s disappearance wants to participate in the ‘movie’ of the re-enactment of the 3rd of May in Praia da Luz
Without fears and willing to help. This the state of mind of Robert Murat, the Englishman that was constituted as the first arguido in the scope of the process connected with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, on the 3rd of May of 2007, of an apartment in Praia da Luz, Algarve.
Like him, Sergey Malinka, a computer expert, was notified to participate, on the 15th and 16th of May, in a reconstitution of the alleged events taken place on the day in which Maddie stopped being seen.
Malinka, so far, as not answered, but Murat already told the authorities that he has no problem in helping and, contrary to Kate and Gerry McCann, parents of the child, and unlike the seven friends with whom they had dinner with in the Tapas Bar, in that fateful day, he did not impose any conditions to participate in the re-enactment.
Murat stays at home on the day of the re-enactment
“He was always at home with the mother. He just has to do the same that he did in that day and in many others that followed that day: to keep his mother company. The arguido status, which has damaged immensely his personal and professional life should have been lifted a long time ago, since it does make any sense”, revealed a source close to the arguido, however a judicial source assured that his status will remain up to until the time when an accusation is or not done, which will only happen in the middle of July of 2008.
Meantime, Robert Murat, yesterday let know that he is going to ask compensations for slander to several British media organizations. The arguido wants to prosecute 11 British newspapers and the channel of television Sky News for slander in a process that lead to a cumulative payout of more than two million pounds (2,5 million euros). 34-year-old Robert Murat, lives with his mother in the Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, nearly a hundred of meters away of the apartment from where Maddie disappeared.
It was an English journalist of the “Sunday Mirror”, Lori Campbell, who pointed the attentions of the police towards Murat, as soon as she thought that he had a suspect behavior. In an article entitled “Murat fear: Why I told cops”, the journalist explains: “There was an evasiveness and unease about Murat that left me feeling extremely uncomfortable”. Robert Murat, for a long time was the only suspect in the investigation, and he was object to great attention by the press, which investigated his whole life and past. The arguido always insisted in his innocence, having affirmed that they made him “a scapegoat”.
In a statement, the London-based firm of solicitors, Simons Muirhead and Burton, confirmed they were ‘representing Robert Murat in respect of a number of libel actions against Sky, the Daily Express, the Sunday Express, the Daily Star, the Daily Mail, the Evening Standard, the Metro, the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror, the News of the World, the Sun and the Scotsman’.
Facts
REMEMBER. To establish a record is the objective of Murat and of his lawyer, Francisco Pagarete. According to Caroline Kean, a media law expert, quoted by the newspaper “ The Observer “, Murat might receive “ at least 200 thousand pounds (nearly 250 thousand euros) for each newspaper and for complaint, which would exceed two million pounds ”. The current record for a complaint for slander is of 1,5 million pounds (nearly 1,8 million euros), in 1989, according to the same newspaper.
MEETING. The Judiciary Police team which traveled last week to England, that was led by Paulo Rebelo, coordinator of criminal investigation of the PJ, will have today in the morning, a meeting with the Public Prosecutor Luís Verão and criminal instruction judge Pedro Frias, as well as with the assistant director of the Judiciary Police and the very person in charge of the Directorship of Faro, Guilhermino Encarnação. The objective is to assess and evaluate the cross-examinations done to seven persons with whom the McCanns had dinner with in the Tapas Bar, on the 3rd of May 2007
Source: 24Horas
translation by me
April 14th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Small mistake in the statement by a close source to the arguido, Robert Murat it should be: “…The arguido status, which has damaged immensely his personal and professional life should have been lifted a long time ago, since it does not make any sense” .
thanks and good day to all
April 14th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Thanks for translation!
What strikes me as most peculiar to this day, is how much dirt and lies were thrown at Murat but we were never allowed to hear anything fom Clan neighbours and friends.
Is this because the Clan know people who edit intelligence - from a great height?????
The Clan have still not resorted to using my story yet ……. The one about how three of my children were eaten by aliens. Leaving no trace.
I didn’t clean my clothes in the washing machine. I burned them in the garden. I did not want DNA being found in the washer or drains.
And bleach doesn’t always get rid of DNA either. However Flash Lemon leaves a lovely fragrance.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:51 am
You could always try Hydrochloric acid, or Muriatic acid, for those pesky DNA stains don’t no what that smells like, though..
April 14th, 2008 at 6:53 am
McCanns’ Police Files May Be Released
Updated:04:06, Monday April 14, 2008
Portuguese police and prosecutors are to meet to discuss their interviews with friends of Madeleine McCann’s parents, a spokesman for the missing girl’s family said.
They are also expected to debate the future direction of the investigation into her disappearance from Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 last year.
One of Kate and Gerry McCann’s lawyers said earlier this month that police files could be made public today.
But the couple’s spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, played down this possibility and predicted that the official secrecy period would be extended until the summer.
Mr and Mrs McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, remain “arguidos” - or formal suspects - in the case but have not been charged and deny all wrongdoing.
Paulo Rebelo, the detective leading the inquiry, flew back to Portugal earlier than expected on Friday.
He and his team spent last week in Leicestershire sitting in on fresh interviews with the seven friends on holiday with the McCanns when Madeleine disappeared.
Mr Rebelo will meet the public prosecutor in the case, Jose Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses, in the Algarve town of Portimao today, Mr Mitchell said.
The McCanns’ spokesman added: “Rebelo will report back on the interviews that took place last week, and they will then decide on whether the police need more time.
“I assume that will come out in the next day or so.
“We are hoping that they will do the decent thing, realising that the friends told essentially the same story they told last summer, and eliminate Kate and Gerry from the case.”
But Mr Mitchell said he believed there was only the “slimmest of slim chances” that this would happen today.
“(Today) is technically possible for the lifting of judicial secrecy, but it’s unlikely. We think it will run through to the summer,” he said.
Portuguese law normally provides for an eight-month term during which documents remain secret, and official suspects, police and lawyers are banned from discussing the case in public.
sky news
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1312766,00.html?f=rss
April 14th, 2008 at 6:53 am
When one remembers the tripe that has been written about Murat and compares it to the sheeny shiny shite that has mostly been printed about the Clan - I am fucked as to why Murat only deserves 2 million from 10 sources but The Clan got 500k from two.
This guy and his family will be infamous for hundreds of years!
Oh my God!
April 14th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Absolutely, and not only the McClan as you call it. there are many politics and diplomats which will go down and be remembered for their ‘connections’ and use of the McCanns for their own personal agendas.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:58 am
4 xklamation
Muratic acid - Robert Murat has released a line of acid? Cool
April 14th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Sorry, I meant above the McClan will remain infamous as well…
April 14th, 2008 at 7:03 am
I will keep some hydrochloric acid under the sink incase it happens again. Lol.
Word has it that zillions are being poured into this investigation, Zillions and zillions!
Now - would a legal system go through all this for nothing at such great expense? .
April 14th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Not to mention dodgy double-glazing men and private investigators!
They will be like nips passing in the shite! lol
April 14th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Sorry coco , going to check Portuguese Press now to see if anything new has arrived. see you later
xx
April 14th, 2008 at 7:12 am
I would love to know how the chiefiest of chiefs in Portugal feels about these retractions by witnesses.
Because of course everybody will have to retract everything now won’t they???????
Or is everybody going to say that have all remembered a completely different time-line this week??????
I will be scared if nobody is dragged to Portugal now. Where is the Power behind all this?
April 14th, 2008 at 7:23 am
“Kate and Gerry want a panel of missing children experts…:
If they are missing, how can they help ?
April 14th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Xclamation! Merci beaucoup!
Am in meetings all day today so will know nothing about the Clan until late tonight. I am getting withdrawal already.
Come on CM, get on the BBC and Sky! - Wheel out the fact that MMc has been abducted by an alien who left absolutely no trace of itself.
Not only that, but it came back in an instant and repaired the shutters and made sure there was a door open, shut, open, shut, left unlocked etc.
Abduction by aliens is very rare, but it can and does happen! It happened to me. And I am not ashamed. However, I am worried about the fact that I may go to prison for neglecting them and going on the piss.
However, if the Clan can get away with neglect s- o can I. Unless I lived in a scruffy housing block, in which case I would be guaranteed prison and the rest of my kids would be in care.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:32 am
I think an end to the secrecy would be great.
Put all the dirt on the table.
Then see how quickly the powers supporting the show would
drop the tray, spilling all the drinks of power and support
and leaving a muddled, messy, uncleanable picture of neglect
and horror.
Coco - About these aliens, I think I see some at the bottom of
the garden where the kids are playing, should I be concerned?
April 14th, 2008 at 7:53 am
24horas do me a favour, see coco and the other clowns are having a meeting today, that should be fun.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:59 am
mornin’ all
one of the poor people working on the drainage reported an alien in the lower field this morning
it turned out to be ted, who was a bit worse for wear and had fallen into a muddy patch on his way back from the doom and nasty pasty pub
there was a cover-up, of course
someone found an old blanket and a shower curtain to put over him unitl he sobers up sometime on thursday
April 14th, 2008 at 8:01 am
will the scumbags commission a probe into the crap performance of metodo3 and their value for money in terms of funds donated to “the cause”?
April 14th, 2008 at 8:07 am
6 coco
I am fucked as to why Murat only deserves 2 million from 10 sources but The Clan got 500k from two.
i get the point but not strictly true
the scumbags got half a million from 4 newspapers (dailies and sundays count as two) so that’s 130k from each
rm is asking 200k from each, so he’s got his sums right
also rm will get 10 times the expenses, rather than the 4 times for the scumbags
i bet the mcgreedies are really pissed off about that
such fun
April 14th, 2008 at 8:08 am
off out for the day - back this evening maybe
have lots of fun for me
April 14th, 2008 at 8:10 am
20 ade
How much will Karen Matthews receive?
April 14th, 2008 at 8:11 am
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âde Says:
April 14th, 2008 at 8:07 am
6 coco
I am fucked as to why Murat only deserves 2 million from 10 sources but The Clan got 500k from two.
i get the point but not strictly true
the scumbags got half a million from 4 newspapers (dailies and sundays count as two) so that’s 130k from each
rm is asking 200k from each, so he’s got his sums right
also rm will get 10 times the expenses, rather than the 4 times for the scumbags
i bet the mcgreedies are really pissed off about that
such fun
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I see dog breath is still here?
April 14th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Ade
Just incase it upsets all your fun…………… Get to firkin work you guitar plucking pot smoking knobjockeyherbert!
April 14th, 2008 at 8:14 am
11 April 2008
Simons Muirhead & Burton is representing Robert Murat in respect of a number of libel actions against Sky, The Daily Express, The Sunday Express, The Daily Star, The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard, The Metro, The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, The News of the World, The Sun and The Scotsman.
At this time neither the firm nor its client will be making any comment. Any developments in this matter will be posted on this page.
http://www.smab.co.uk/news/index.php
April 14th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Morning Ade, morning Garth - are we going to play nicely today????
April 14th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Morning
April 14th, 2008 at 8:16 am
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Carmen Says:
April 14th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Morning Ade, morning Garth - are we going to play nicely today????
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Morning
Im only playing……you know, having some fun as some would call it!
April 14th, 2008 at 8:20 am
morning
now the mccs know that the police files can will be made public- i wonder if they will want to keep their ahgreedo status
April 14th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Pat
Can, tin or will?