Robert Murat: The New OJ Simpson
ROBERT Murat remains suspect No.1 in the case of Madeleine McCann. The story with tears, mystery and suspense is on the Express’s front page.
And the paper has a question: “Madeleine: Will the suspect cash in by selling his story?”
In “Maddy suspect’s PR deal” the paper says “oddball” Robert Murat has contacted Max Clifford, the ubiquitous PR guru without whom no story is complete.
Clifford represented OJ Simpson when he was accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman, says the Express. It’s an interesting example given that Simpson was found innocent in court and then found liable for the deaths in a civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5m in damages - money that has never been collected.
It should also not be overlooked that Clifford took charge of Freddie Starr when the comedian was accused to eating a hamster. Like Simpson, he was found not guilty.
So will Clifford take the client? “When I spoke to Robert, he was in tears and said: ‘I’m innocent and I will prove I am innocent’, and thanked me for listening to him. I told him that provided he is cleared I will be happy to talk to him.”
How Murat will prove his innocent is not said, just as readers have not learned why Murat is the mystery’s only suspect nor why Murat has not been charged with committing any crime.
The Star says detectives are awaiting the results of forensic tests on Murat’s clothes.
And readers hear more from Clifford: “The bloke has been hung, drawn and quartered without any shred of evidence being revealed to anyone. I think it’s totally wrong that a man is condemned as guilty when there’s been no trial and nobody knows anything at all.”
Clifford seems to be already at work…
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November 19th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
What about the new story about his girl friend being spotted with madeleine? Now the girl friend life being ruined Too.
I do not understand how those news come in the paper .
July 20th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Well the truth is nobody knows weather Murat is innocent or guilty, but yet the police were quite happy to put him in the media and ruin his life without hard evidence–imagine if that happened to you. And for all you brainwashed people out there who dont know what goes on behind closed doors I’ll tell you: whenever there is an outcry for justice by the public, the police are then underpressure. When the police are underpressure they will target someone who seems a bit odd and then put them in the papers ( this makes things look good for the police) now the police use the media as a weapon cus the police know that a lot of the public are gonna believe the papers and they think if they throw enough mud then some of it will stick–the media has always been the polices’ most powerful tool. And remember its happened in the past and it still happens today–police can fit you up with false evidence, they can even plant child porn on your computer, and lets face it, if that gets in the papers about you then we all know that the public are gonna turn against you and once its in the papers theres nothing you can do about it. Thats why whenever a child is kidnapped a lot of the public who may have saw the child at the time of the disapperance are too afraid to report it, cus then if your the last person to have seen the abducted child then chances are you will get the blame–then you will be the suspect and then before you no it you will be in the papers, all over the world and then your life is fucked. If Murat is guilty then he deserves to rott in hell, all I’m saying is if people knew all about the polices’ dirty tricks and tactics then people wouldn’t be so quick to judge.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:52 am
Ernesto Forchetto: Absa-bloody-lootely (excuse the pun) anyone with a glass bead for an eye and a strange sidesway smirk like his must be as guilty as hell. i’d skin him alive just ‘incase’ he was guilty !
I said he’d sell his sleazy story, but i thought he’d have the half decency to wait at least until the heat was off… he’d steal the pennies off a dead mans eyes and sell his own mum to the scientologists.
all agents are crooks and he’s as crooked as they come, never met a decent agent in my life, be it insurance, estate or whatever.
i predict he was having wild gimboid gorilla sex with his rusky cottagerporn star friend, and that will be his story and his alibi. By the way you dont make enough cash basketweaving webpages for cash strapped expats to buy a set of sports cars !
why does he make such a big deal out of it all anyway, he is just a suspect that’s all. what a total and utter wuss… what with royal navy “soldiers” selling their ‘tehran holiday’ stories, even pedo suspects, and disco harry disclosing to the world that he was to be deployed to basra w.t.f. will be next.
unfortunately we have become as utterly crass as the yanks.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Thanks Ernie, almost forgot about that.
His poor mother, her lungs must be all shrivelled and black.
He’s such a fiend!
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:02 pm
“But on the other hand - of course he did it! He’s got a glass eye, a foreign sounding name…an he lives with his mum - of course he’s a nonce!”
He is also a SMOKER and therefore evil…
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Personally I think he would be well within his rights to sell his story.
Guilty or not, he will find it very difficult to have any sort of quality of life after the public savaging that he has had by the red tops (and SKY…and the BBC…and pretty much every paper).
If he is innocent, then I think that it would be pretty fitting for him to sponge money from the media, much as the press have done to the proles in the UK just now.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Phil
Murat refused to take the Daily Express’ lie test, not a Lie test. I think anyone else being hounded by that paper would have sensibly done the same thing.
Just because it is reported that Murat and his (conveniently) Russian male friend were talking on the phone that night, does NOT make them Child abductors.
Get back to basics, most offences against Children are committed by immediate family or friends.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Phil -
you have absolutley no evidence to come out with the nonsense I have just read. Your belief that Murat has someting to do with it seem to be based on your prejudices. perhaps you have been reading a litle too much from the Daily Mail?!
But on the other hand - of course he did it! He’s got a glass eye, a foreign sounding name…an he lives with his mum - of course he’s a nonce!
Murat is innocent until proven guilty. He is under no compulsion to take a lie detector, and anyone who has watched Jeremy Kyle knows that these tests con often be inconclusive in any case!
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Interesting article. If Murat is ‘innocent’, why did he refuse a lie test (reported in the Sunday Express this Sunday gone) ? Murat and his Russian computer expert friend protest their ‘innocence’ but their abilis don’t add up. It annoys me to think that these two know more than they are letting on for their own selfishness, saying their ‘lives are ruined’ etc. OK, the media attention has been immense, but really, if they wanted to eliminate themselves out of the abduction of Madeline, then why not tell the truth. Murat is in fear of being put into prison because to clear his name could lead to him going to prison..pah..rubbish…he’s in fear that the truth will come out.
With a £2.6 million reward for her safe return,there’s been this and that ’sighting’ but no concrete leads. There must be ‘bounty hunters’ out there looking for Madeline, because that kind of money would be like winning the lottery. No results. Silence. Why? The unthinkable has happened–Madeline has been murdered and her body hidden. Why was Murat in a rush to hire a car on the first Saturday that Madeline disappeared? To hide her?
If the world was watching me, I would take a lie test and do everything in my power to clear my name–if I was innocent. Not hire the best PR guru. In order to cover his crime, Murat offered his services to the McCann family to cover his prints all over their apartment, not to be ‘helpful’.
I think the search for Madeline is a wild goose chase. Murat and his Russian friend hold the key to Madeline’s disappearance. The search for Madeline ends with them. Looking elsewhere is a wild goose chase.
Hopefully the police will get a breakthrough and results soon. I hope and pray that Madeline will be found, if even to give closure to her family. I’m really sorry that this has happened. It’s unfortunate in the first place that Madeline was left alone by her parents. Murat the fox was watching..
Regards
Phil
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:35 pm
If he really is innocent, perhaps the McCanns should fork over some of the money from that hefty fund to help repair yet another life ruined as a result of their negligence. Collateral damage, I suppose. I wonder how many people will fall victim to a witch hunt in this case and have to prove their innocence instead of being proven guilty?
Of course, if he’s guilty, fry him. But a little proof (other than that glass eye the media keeps focusing on) would be nice.
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Ah… the Maddie Reality Show proceeds apace… comming soon, ‘Maddie the Movie’ and the book deals
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:46 pm
If he sells his story, I hope the proceeds go to the find madeleine fund.
I will be stunned if anyone, even Max Clifford, attempts to profit from Madeleins disappearance.
How has it all come to this?