Friday December 28,2007
By Martin Evans in Praia da Luz
He was the last of 52 British sex offenders who have links with the Algarve to be tracked down by detectives but has now been ruled out of any involvement.
In a further blow for Madeleine’s parents, police files against them will not be made public next week after the authorities applied to extend their investigation. Kate and Gerry McCann, who remain official suspects (arguidos) in their daughter’s disappearance, had hoped to discover what evidence detectives had against them on January 3 when a crucial secrecy deadline passed.
Under Portuguese law the police must make their findings public eight months after an investigation is launched.
But the McCanns and Robert Murat – the only other official suspect – will have to wait for at least three months to gain access to the files following the postponement of the deadline. This is allowed because prosecutors have awarded the investigation “special complexity” status meaning normal rules can be ignored.
A source within the Policia Judiciaria confirmed: “All the paedophiles who were in Portugal at the time of the disappearance have now been acquitted.”
Few official details about the police investigation are known because the country’s strict secrecy laws, which cover all criminal inquiries, mean it is illegal to talk publicly about a case. Breaching the laws can be punishable by up to two years in prison.
Carlos Casimiro, a magistrate and expert in Portuguese penal procedure said the deadlines could be extended indefinitely because the case remains so high profile. He told Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias he thought the most likely outcome – even after two extensions – would be “the delay of the investigation in a desperate attempt to seek enough evidence to make an accusation”.
“This is an exceptionally high profile case on an international level and it is the country’s image which is at stake,” he said.
The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “There are also people who aren’t on any lists who need to be traced. In the meantime our lawyers will continue to press for access to the police files, and to push for the arguido status to be lifted.”
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Ok, so he is now cleared...but he lived right next to Robert Murat...did Murat know this person? Were they friends?
Another thing that bothers me...why are they so many foreign sex offender links to the area...why do some many of them go there? If 52 British people who are on a sex offender list have visited, how many that have not been caught yet have visited the area?
Brian
apologies for the errors with the links in my email.
murat and malinka were pictured here the next day of the incident.
sorry the last link didnt work..
http://gazetadigitalarquivo.blogspot.com/2007/05/gazeta-digital-madeleine-mccanns.html
Robert would have hired the hire car on the 15th, just before the hard drives were cleaned and they were taken in for questioning.
Seems crazy that there are no recordings of the mileage on that car that he hired. I do wonder if they traced Murat's hire car and subjected it DNA tests?
spirals at lagos marina
http://www.timeoffsailing.co.uk/images/Outtosea.JPG
Bsest wishes from London.
xzoex
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Thanks for this...Brian

20.5.07
Madeleine McCann’s abduction - Special Report (05:05 am, May 20 - 2007)
Robert Murat was under close police surveillance since the morning of May 4, the day after Madeleine was abducted
The main suspect (and only one, until now) in the Madeleine McCann abduction, Robert Murat, was under close police surveillance since the morning of May 4, the following day to the child disappearance. From that moment on, all of his movements and contacts were monitored by investigators of Polícia Judiciária (PJ - Portuguese Criminal Investigation Department). On the early hours of that day, after the first journalists arrived at the local, Murat was near the Ocean Club and talked with several of them.
Casually dressed, with jeans, blue plastic sandals and a blue and white chequered shirt, Murat took the initiative to talk with two Portuguese journalists, saying that he knew very well Madeleine’s parents, that they were both doctors, and he was “deeply disturbed with the abduction, because he had a three year old daughter who, by coincidence, was also called Madeleine”. His daughter, as was later revealed, is called Sophia.
During that day, Murat seemed to be everywhere, helping British journalists with translations, buying water in Batista supermarket to take to the GNR policemen guarding the area, asking if there was any news about Madeleine and even giving some predictions, like: “They will never find the child, probably she is already in Spain”, one the first Portuguese journalists at the crime scene told Gazeta Digital. These kinds of comments were also reported by British journalists. Next day, May 5, Saturday, he followed the same pattern. That day, around 7:00 pm, a Portuguese journalist saw him sitting at a table of Batista’s supermarket terrace, chatting with a young man – the Russian computer expert Sergei Malinka who was also questioned by police and is a witness in this case.

Murat and Malinka were here, sitting side by side, on Saturday May 5
But on Sunday, according to Portuguese journalists, Murat seemed to have vanished. Most of them say they never saw him, but some say that he was there, sporadically, and adopting a lower profile. After Sunday, May 6, he didn’t showed up, at all. British Press reported that he went to UK, for a couple of days, and then back to Portugal. Gazeta Digital has learned that Portuguese police was able to get extensive and detailed footage of Murat’s movements and contacts, while he was among journalists and police officers or inside the Ocean Club, during those days.
On May 15, Polícia Judiciária revealed at a Press Conference that they had a formal suspect, a male, 33 years of age, and that he was released, for lack of evidence, but was under a restraining order from the court – meaning he can’t leave this area (“concelho”, a Portuguese municipality). Searches at his mother’s house, where he lives sometimes – sources told Gazeta Digital he has several houses in Algarve – produced a lot of apprehended material that is being analysed at the Portuguese Police Scientific Laboratory. British Police - which has several experts working with the Portuguese police - was informed about the material, but analysis is being done only in the Portuguese Laboratory. Results of the most important analysis were expected today, May 19, according to SIC, a Portuguese TV Channel.
Murat was taken to Polícia Judiciária headquarters in Portimão on May 14 and went under interrogation for 14 hours. About the night Madeleine disappeared, he said that he was at home with his mother, and had dinner there – an information that was confirmed by Jennifer Murat.
But police detected several phone calls from Murat to a few friends, asking them if they have been together at that night, also according to CM. Another detail is the fact that Sergei Malinka called Murat, at that night, twice – first, his mother's home number and, as nobody answered, his mother’s mobile – between 11:30 and 11:40 pm.
Web site suspended and reactivated

Murat’s business web site, Romigen.com, is just an advertisement site, for real estate in Algarve. A person willing to sell a house pays 37 euros to have his advert published there. The site was built by Sergei Malinka. Romigen is a company set up by Robert Murat and Michaela Walczuch (or Walczuk, as there are some doubts about it), a registered real estate professional, a foreigner of German and Polish origin, living in Algarve for many years, that Robert met when he worked, for a short period, on a real estate company. The site registration was made in April 6, 2006, at 07:11 pm, but with the name of Robert Muray (a possible mistake, as letter "t" and "y" are togheter in the keyboard). The address is from Casa Liliana, the residence of Murat’s mother, Mrs. Jennifer Ann Murat. The home number and mobile phone are from Murat’s mother. Gazeta Digital checked both of them, but the mobile phone has been disconnected, on a date we couldn’t find.

The site, in Portuguese, English and German, has a mobile phone and a home phone, listed as contacts. The home number is listed in the front page, as a contact for those that “don’t have a computer or require any assistance”. Both numbers belong to Michaela Walczuch, who is M. Murat’s girlfriend – even if she still lives in the same house with her husband. The couple has an independent life, as if they were divorced, but live together because of their 8 years old daughter. The home number is from their residence, in Lagos. The mobile number is registered under the name Michaela António, her “husband” family surname.
There was a registered access to the web site database, by the administrator of the site, on May 15, at 08:00 pm. The site was closed on May 16, at 23:00 pm and put back online May 19, 01:36 am, sources told Gazeta Digital. On May 15, Polícia Judiciária declared formally that they had a suspect, later revealed by he media to be Robert Murat. Portuguese TV channel SIC also said that Murat, a regular Internet user, stopped accessing the Net on the day Madeleine was abducted, during almost one week. The Russian computer expert, Sergei Malinka, told journalists that the only relation he had with Murat was a professional one, when he helped him to create the web site. According to Correio da Manhã, the police found that both computers apprehended at Malinka’s home had all files in the hard-disk wiped out, but we didn’t confirmed this detail.
(End of part I - Posted 05:05 am, May 20 2007)
Posted by Paulo Reis at 4:23:00 AM
Can you have your webmaster make these pages a little easier to navigate? It loads very slow and full of unnecessary coding.
Tim
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Hi Tim, sure no problem...ok I told him...he said when he gets a chance try and fix it :)
Brian
12.28.2007
Can you please check these links :
http://www.cylex.pt/empresa/jacinto---murat--lda--6471258.html
http://www.jacinto-murat.pt/portugal/solimar/index.html
http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/05/17/sociedade/casa_murat_vale_mil.html
http://www.jacinto-murat.pt/falf-a-i.html
http://www.exposay.com/solimar-apartments-missing-british-3-year-old-girl-madeleine-mccann-in-portugal/p/10561/6/?f=Solimar%20Apartments
There is a possibillity that Madeleine was there or might still is there. (In a basement).
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Hi Yvonne, will do...Brian
Hi, Brian
Then there is "Robert S.", "RS, WS." I am still wondering if such a person has been identified by PDL locals or the police/PIs. I would guess that a person who would abduct and keep such a young child would be someone "on the fringe", a loner, very quiet, maybe with a thwarted religious bend - hence crosses in your DDs,(someone like Elizabeth Smart's abductor, possibly with an equally disturbed partner to aid him). All of the McCann's appeals would then fall on deaf ears as such a person does not have "a conscience" they are appealing to. Madeleine just needs to be found by any means available.
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Hi Natasha, well there is a way, but I have not been updating the cases status, the best way right now is just to open the case or do a keyword search.
I'm not doing much today until I can shake this fever and headache...going to make some special tea of mine...it's never failed so far :)
Brian
Murat: Two new witnesses claim to have seen him loitering near the complex where Madeleine was abducted
Hi Brian,
Someone asked for some more info about Robert Shaw.
First of all, there is the actor Robert Shaw (Jaws), but he died already.
I also found this link about a Robert Shaw, living in New Zealand and
he seems to be producing educational Astronomy books.
(Since you are dreaming about stars, pyramids, etc.)
Here's the link to his website:
http://www.robertshaw.orcon.net.nz/
I don't know if this has anything to do with the case,
but it's worth to check it out.
Groetjes,
Dolores
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Thank you...Brian
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Thanks Jennifer, will post this ASAP...Brian
12.29.2007
Hi, BrianI just read in one of the latest posts that there is a known couple who were taking pictures of girls on the beach prior to May 3 - this is the first I have heard of there being a couple (although I have read about a man). Can the person who posted this info (associated with the "Hyves") post the names of the couple and how they are associated with Murat? I clicked on the attached links, but not being a member of Hyves I could not find that info. This seems to be something for the PIs to investigate if there is concrete information.
Another new piece of information is that the two British sisters who say Murat was there on the night of the 3rd, and acted strange on the next day, also reported that they saw 2 men on the balcony of an apartment facing the tapas bar. They had thought that the apartment was vacant (shutters closed), and thought it strange to see the two men hanging around. This sounds like a look-out location to observe the group's movements- could be a very significant piece of information, especially if they could provide a description.
I have recently read that the reports that CCTV was non-existent or not working at the resort are not true, and that there was a significant amount of footage available to the PJ.
Brian, I hope your tea works and you feel better soon!
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Hi, thanks for the information...the tea worked like a charm again :)
Brian
Oh, yes I have heard that too...I'm sure the PJ accidently destroyed it...Brian
The reputation of the Portuguese police & justice system

We have been hearing recently that the Portuguese authorities want to keep the arguido status on Mr & Mrs McCann for a further 3 months and then 6 months because the reputation of the Portuguese police and justice system is at stake considering this case concerning missing Madeline McCann has international attention and they do not want to make mistakes.
If that is the case then why after 8 witnesses saying that Robert Murat has lied about his statement have they not arrested him and interrogated him about why he lied, and also his mother who has lied for him.
What does this tell the world about Portuguese justice and their police forces competence to solve a crime based on the facts that are right in front of their eyes - If you was a policeman, lawyer or a judge then is this not a mistake of unimaginable magnitude that the whole world can see?
What reputation can the Portuguese have when they allow this corruption to continue?
I wonder what Robert Murat knows about high ranking Portuguese officials?
If it is true, this is not a case of 8 moths later witnesses appearing from no where, these 2 new witnesses made lengthy statements to Leicestershire police in May shortly after they returned from their holidays.
The incompetent Portuguese police investigation is what has forced them to come forward now because nothing had been done concerning their damning witness evidence that puts Robert Murat and another person at the scene of the crime the night Madeline was abducted, the night he told the police he was sitting in the kitchen with his mother all night and did not leave the house.
Is it only me who thinks that there is something seriously wrong with this investigation, an investigation that has 2 innocent people living under a henious dark cloud while their innocent 4 year old daughter is missing?
Who within Portugal has the heart and the strength to make the right decisions and steps to free these parents from their Portuguese enforced living hell, if not look forward to the European courts of human rights and a considerable multi million pound damages suit for the torment that has been enforced upon innocent people that breaches their human rights.
8 witnesses saying someone is lying is pretty damning evidence dont you think, so what does this do for the reputation of the Portuguese police and justice system.
My thoughts:
Arrest and charge Robert Murat, arrest and charge his mother or cut a deal for the sake of finding out who else was involved in this crime and if you find out Murat's girlfriend and her ex husband are involved then the one to crack will be the ex husband for the sake of the daughter.
And do the right, just and honourable thing and remove the arguido status from the parents before the end of the year and let them go into 2008 free to fight for the return of their daughter.
Let us hope and pray that 2008 will be the year of miracles.
Didn't I tell you, that you are very fitting for Robert Murat Mr Francisco Pagarete, no wonder your not available for comment, lets just hope that the reason you are not available is because you and your client are now preparing for the inevitable.
Let us hope and pray that Robert Murat does not do a Fred West on us before the truth is told.
Daily Express:
Annie Wiltshire, 58, and Jayne Jensen, 54, both from Kent, reported their suspicions to Leicestershire police in May.
They had gone to the Portuguese resort on April 21 for a two-week holiday in the Ocean Club complex.
On the afternoon of May 3 they noticed two men acting suspiciously on the balcony of an apparently empty apartment overlooking the complex’s swimming pool. At around 10.30 that night they noticed a man standing and smoking a cigarette in the reception area.
The following day, when they went to local police to report the two suspicious-looking men, former estate agent Murat, 33, who has always denied any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance, offered his services as a translator.
They recognised him as the smoking man from the previous evening and later invited him to join them and a friend for a drink.
Mrs Jensen told police she thought Murat’s behaviour was strange, and her suspicions were further aroused when he said he needed to change his clothes because he had been wearing the same outfit all day.
This seemed odd because she had seen him wearing a different shirt and trousers just moments earlier, she said.
On their return to the UK the sisters passed on their information to Leicestershire police, but failed to hear anything back.
They decided to contact Metodo 3, the private detective agency hired by Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry, to flag up their concerns again. A source close to the investigation said: “We are extremely grateful to them for getting the information to us
Continue reading: Robert Murat guilty
Ok, if true and Murat was smoking a cigarette yards from the McCann's apartment...can someone think of any possible evidence that this would leave behind? If it can be proved he was there the night Madeline went missing, then his alibi is gone. I'm assuming the PJ did not search the area at all, and I realize its a long shot, but what if there is still a cigarette but there? Did Murat smoke in his mothers house? Did he smoke that night? Did he smell of smoke? And who are these two blonde men?
Brian
12.30.2007
First i wish you a Merry christmas and happy new year!!!!
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Sure will, and thanks Katrein...Brian
HI!
One of your reader send photo of Murats house, is someone notice door
and white window? behind the bushes? Its looklike that path go side
the house over that door.
I send 3 photos, photos are from exposay, but two of them I have move
a size and itsn´t hight guality.
Happy new year!
Anne
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You too :)
Brian



Hi Brian,
Here is more to my last email named "Robert"
I'm trying to check out every Robert S there is in Portugal and there are a
few we can rule out rather fast. I have now checked on Robert ML Snapper
which is one of the Robert S I found and who has been mentioned once before
by another reader and - which actually is not listed in Portugal but has
business in Algarve.
It doesn't seem to be him if he is supposed to:
1) have a wife with name starting on W
2) work for a hotel
3) or work for the police
4) be younger which is just an assumption from myself, I imagine the couple
being a bit younger..
I found this text:
RS Real Estate (Act) LLC is the owner of various properties in the Algarve,
the most southern province of Portugal. Director of the companies are Robert
M.L. Snapper and his wife Anita. They have been living in the Algarve for 30
years, although both being Dutch born.
All the best
Annika
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As always...thank you :)
Brian
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Hi, sorry I did not get to your emails...have posted this...and the very best to you in 2008 :)
Brian
hi Brian,
I've been looking at pictures of Murats' house, didn't want to implicate myself, so please check out the following links
http://www.prphotos.com/store/category.cgi?item=SPX-007790&type=store&ps=1&start=52
http://www.prphotos.com/store/category.cgi?item=SPX-007784&type=store&ps=1&start=58
there seems to be 2 doors on the exterior wall of murats' house backing off the pool.
In light of the increasing amount of witnesses coming forward to say that they saw him on the night at the Ocean Club, one does has to ask.....why hasn't he been hauled back in for questioning.?
I find myself thinking PYJAMAS when we all refer to the PJ...! It's a joke..
kindest regards
xzoex
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Will do...Brian
Dear Brian,
I sent you an e-mail just before this regarding luzholiday.com. Also on that site it shows that there is a launderette right beside the Baptista supermarket, mentioned earlier on your site. I think you should take a closer look at the earlier dreams you had before your head was filled with thoughts from the media and the public in general. Your earlier dreams may be nearer to the truth.
regards
Katie
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Hi, will do...Brian
Hi Brian,
There was a request about the spiral forms you have dreamed of
and i found this (see attachment) on Google Earth.
I you look close at Casa Niobe, you can see on the left side some kind
of Spiral forms in the ground (marked in RED).
You also dreamed about MAIO,
Rua de MAIO is a very long street and it passes Casa Niobe and if
I'm correct, Sergei Malinka's house is also on this road (I've marked the road with RED)
Groetjes,
Dolores
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Hi, posted Dolores...Brian

Natasja asked for more information about the man and woman and the link between them and Murat.
We found this article: http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2533991.ece
It says: A man who said his daughter and other girls had been photographed by a man with a blonde woman in a Renault Clio with British plates at Sagres, near Praia, insists the same woman was caught on CCTV at a service station near Lagos. That would have been on the A22 to the Spanish border on the night of Madeleine's disappearance.
The couple, reportedly in their 40s, had been staying at an appartment in the Solimar apartments in Borgau, near Praia, where the petrol station CCTV images were being distributed.
8600-722 Lagos
Google Earth shows that it's close to the harbour (marina) of Lagos.
And look at the site of the Solimar appartments !!! Who's name do you see?
http://www.jacinto-murat.pt/portugal/solimar/index.html
http://www.exposay.com/solimar-apartments-missing-british-3-year-old-girl-madeleine-mccann-in-portugal/p/10561/6/?f=Solimar%20Apartments
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Thanks Natasja.
Brian
Hi Brian,
Interestingly, David Payne, husband of Fiona Payne, greatly resembles Robert Murat.
It's possible the two sisters and others saw David Payne, not Robert Murat.
Here's a few photos of David Payne which show a remarkable resemblance to Robert Murat:
About 5-6 weeks ago I awoke in the morning from a dream in which Madeleine and a few other children were outdoors playing in and around a huge metal pipe, orange/red in color with ridges on the interior of it. The pipe was of approximately 10' - 12' diameter, the grass surrounding it, where a few other children played, was mowed, not high, not weeds, but there was a wooded area with trees about 10 ' or so on the right side of the pipe. She appeared happy, she was friendly and obviously outgoing in personality when she turned to me and said "My Mommy & Daddy are doctors".
Seeing her and hearing her speak was overwhelmingly good news to me and I excitedly awoke but almost immediately realized it would have been best to stay in the dream to learn more about her location.
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Hi, thanks...information posted...Brian




Hi Brian,
Strangely there are no people with the initials R.S and W.S. connected to
the MM case.
It is somehow kind of lucky for us though that there aren't loads.. Makes it
really clear when there are none to be confused by!
As we already know there aren't even many names at all starting with a W in
the languages most probable to be connected..
Anyway, in Lagos and Luz there are no women with the name Wendy, Wilma,
Wanda, Winnie or Winona except one Wendy with wrong initials for the sir
name.
There are only the following Robert S (however pls don't jump to conclusions
and point someone out because of a name.. frankly none of these seem to fit
the description..):
********
Quinta Cardeais
8600-315 LAGOS
Robert V Der Schoot
Urbanização Quinta Praia
8600-315 LAGOS
Robert M Donald Scully
Parque Praia
8600-168 LUZ LGS
Robert John Smart
R Ramalhete
8600-163 LUZ LGS
Robert Grant Stephen
8600-115 LUZ LGS
Robert Bell Steven
Urbanização Saint James
8600-128 LUZ LGS
If Robert and W are married they should have the same address and both share
the same sir name starting with an S?
It is quite easy to search that and so far, nothing found..
Something else.. I can't find any Robert connected to the PJ except for
Murat... But is Robert S a cop, or does he work for a hotel? Seems to be
different messages in different DDs. What do you think?
Also:
Can the Dolphin in your last DD be connected to the Dolphin Restaurant? The
location has been brought up here several times before.
Or - didn't Sergey Malinka have a boat tour company? Maybe for dolphin
tours..? The waters between Gibraltar and Tangier is popular for that..
/Annika
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Thanks Annika, I do not know if the restaurant is connected or not.
Brian
Hi Brian,
While i was searching for articles about Robert Murat,
i came across this site:
http://algarve-luzbay.com/accom/private_rentals/Salsalito/salsalito.html
It's the guest house of his aunt and uncle (Saly & Ralph Eveleigh)
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Thanks...Brian
Hi Brian,
Is there anyone that reads your site actually in praia da luz?? If so Are they searching the area?/
Wishing you a wonderful 2008
Elaine
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Hi Elaine, I'm not sure, most of the area we wanted searched are off limits.
Brian
Hi Brian,
I have a dream that I had on Christmas Eve about Madeleine, it went on all night but I can only remember a little bit. I have had dreams of people that have passed before giving me messages though I do not thionk Madeleine has passed. In one of them I had a name said to me over and over again and in the morning I wrote it down. Months later I found out it was my Great grandma who I had never met so I just wanted to let you know my dream incase it helps only a small bit.
I can remember everybody looking for Madeleine and rushing around but she was sat outside the apartment on the paving. There was some blood the size of finger tip right outside the front of the apartment on the pavement and Madeleine was sat next to it pointing at it. No one could see Madeleine it was like she was trying to tell me something. I went closer she put her finger in the blood and smeared it and looked right into my eyes and as she made eye contact, in my mind I heard “this blood will solve the case, this is the key” with that she looked away and looked at the blood again. I then thought, well the blood will be dryed up by now and not visible to the naked eye, but then I remembered the machines that can detect blood stains by how the light shines up.
I have been asking for months to have a dream that contains a message about this case and it never happened. I also had not looked at your site or anything to do with Madeleine for weeks so it was not fresh in my mind. I believe she is alive and also in my dream I remember 2 people were going to Portugal to try and find her, one was a journalist and they asked me to go too but I was not confident of my pyscic abilities but I remember wanting to go to Murats house to see what vibes I picked up and that is where I HAD to go.
I am nothing like you and I do not know if this is just a dream or not but I feel she is in Portugal like you said and I think this should be checked out. I wish I could do something to help but I am living in Austrlia and pregnant so there is no way I can go out there.
You have an amazing gift Brian and you truly have the biggest heart I have ever seen in anyone, it does me good to see there are some good people out there.
Thank you
Laura x
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So do you Laura...Brian
Hi again Brian,
I typed in 272 Portugal into google and this is one of the sites it comes up with.
http://travel.webshots.com/album/559070869zlMyYi
Do not know if it is anything viable.
Thanks
Lauax
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Hi, will check it out...Brian
So get a job in a pub, Dave!!--Webmaster)
I'd like to contact my kids and tell them I'm sorry for what I did but I just can't find the strength.
"It shows that a change in the law is needed NOW!
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Thanks Jennifer, will post your information, and from all my dreams, I'm still think she is at Robert Murat's house or very close.
Brian
12.31.2007
Hi Brian
Happy New Year to you and yours ... XX
It seems Gerry and Kate are thinking of returning to Portugal, this is from AOL News.
Jacqui
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Same to you Jacqui :)
I do not understand why that are letting that fact that they are still suspects get in the way of searching for their daughter...are they not allowed back into the country because of their current status?
Brian
McCanns planning return to Portugal
Last Updated: Monday, 31 December 2007, 12:17 GMT
Gerry and Kate McCann want to return to Portugal to search for Madeleine
The parents of Madeleine McCann want to return to Portugal to continue the search for their missing daughter.
Kate and Gerry McCann were devastated when they were told posters featuring Madeleine were taken down from shop windows in Praia da Luz, the couple's spokesman told the Daily Mirror.
He said they were prepared to go back to Portugal for a new round of media interviews to get the search for their daughter back in the public eye.
But first they must convince Portuguese police to revoke their status as arguidos, or official suspects.
Four-year-old Madeleine has been missing since she disappeared from the family's holiday apartment at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz on May 3.
Her parents are reportedly due to be interviewed by Portuguese detectives next month. If they are cleared they may choose to return to Portugal for the first time since September 9.
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "We've said from the outset that they would go back if it would help the investigation.
"At the moment we just want to concentrate on getting the arguido status lifted so that its no longer a distraction to anyone in the search to find Madeleine.
"If the arguido status were lifted we would review everything and we've said all along that there are reasons why they might go back to Portugal."
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