Police Quiz McCanns’ Friends With Robert Murat
THE police investigating Madeleine McCann’s disapperance are asking questions:
Three friends of Madeleine McCann’s parents have been interviewed by Portuguese police as part of the ongoing investigation into the four-year-old´s disappearance.
Doctors Fiona Payne, 34 from Leicester and Russell O’Brien, 36 from Exeter and another friend Rachael Oldfield, 36, from London were holidaying with the McCanns when their daughter was taken from her bed in the resort of Praia da Luz on May 3.
And Murat:
Robert Murat, the only formal suspect in the case returned to the station for another day of questioning by Portuguese detectives today.
Police called him in to headquarters at the same time as the McCanns’ friends raising the possibility that they may have been called in for identification purposes.
A police source said yesterday: “It was not a case of the McCann´s friends simply going over their statements. There was a reason why they were present in the station at the same time as Murat.”
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July 13th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Here is Wednesday’s SOL article … make of it what you will.
(7/11/2007) SOL
http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Sociedade/Interior.aspx?content_id=44677
Murat and three McCann Friends Confronted
The police will confront three elements of the group that holidayed with Madeleine’s parents in PDL with their testimony against the lone arguido’s in this case regarding the disappearance of the little British girl.
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Robert Murat and three friends of Kate and Gerry McCann will be heard by the PJ of Portimão, still this Wednesday.
The four questioned will be confronted with their original testimony, in order to glean the truth regarding what happened the night of the abduction, seeing as their original accounts contradict each other.
Between the Brits who holidayed with Madeleine’s parents in the Ocean Club and that will be heard today, from what SOL has learnt, is the couple Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner.
Remember that in an investigation SOL revealed that Russell was the element of the group of friends that was absent the most from dinner the night Madeleine McCann disappeared.
The testimony of a worker in the resort confirms that days before Russell was also absent during the group’s dinner.
Jane Tanner is one of the key witnesses of the process that has already affirmed to have seen – in a trip made to the apartments to check that the children were okay – a man carrying a child in his lap (colo in Portuguese=lap).
The Briton affirmed having seen a man between the ages of 35 and 40, dark-skinned or tanned, wearing beige slacks, a dark coat and classical black shoes, with a girl in his lap (colo) wearing pajamas and barefoot.
With everything, this picture does not match completely the profile of Murat, in that he – contrary to the man Jane described –never had long hair in the back.
In spite of the detailed description provided by Jane, Jeremy Wilkins – another witness who found himself at the exact moment on the street where Jane says to have seen the man with the child – told the SUN that he did not see anything, adding that if there was someone there, it would have been practically impossible to not have seen anything.
Other points the police will be clarifying is the presence of Robert Murat in the OC on the night of Maddie’s disappearance.
The friends of the McCann’s confirm having seen the arguido in the resort in PDL, but officials and elements of the GNR counter this version of events.
Molly
July 12th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Murat must reveal all he knows, if he was somehow involved but didnt actually take her, then he must come clean, he knows he is in the dwang and the longer he takes to confessing the worse it is going to be for him and the family.
I hope something positive comes out of all these re-interviews,
no smoke without fire
July 11th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Thousands of other men, not just RM, are “remarkably similar” to the one seen on the night Madeleine disappeared. The description was so vague it could be anyone. Yes, let’s see what develops and not jump to conclusions.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
This so called police source- is quite obviously implying that RM is [as we already know] a suspect… and for identification purposes, is at the police station the same time as the friends are.
The description of the man seen by one of these friends on the night Madeleine disappeared, is remarkably similar to RM.
Let’s see what develops.
Jo