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Hi Brian,

 Hope you are well?  I am emailing you from Portugal.  I am presently on holidays here for another week and a half.  I was in Praia Da Luz today and went to the Church to say a few prayers for the missing girl Madeleine.  I was very surprised to see that business seems to be going on as usual in the place.  It is such a beautiful place for something this tragic to happen in it.  It was a quick visit, but I plan to go back on Monday or Tuesday.  I was hoping you could reply to my email before then and let me know what you think are the key places to take a look in.  I couldn’t do this today as my family were with me and next week I intend to go alone.  I would love to knock on doors looking for her, but think this will not be allowable with the local police.  In saying that I am going to spend the day there and will keep a look at the key places mentioned.  I know that one place is Estrella Da Luz, but can you let me know the rest of them?  Keep up the good work.

 Regards

CC

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Hi, do you have any photos of where you went?

Brian

Hoi Brian .. I have  sent the message below to the find Madeleine appeal..as not sure where else to send it... May I say a big THANK YOU  to you for making this decision and to  Samantha for permitting it

Kris x
cyprus

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Hello,

Thank you so much for this, and I will not forget it. 

If they want me to go, please understand I will not be posting anything on this until I return...and hopefully with good news.

Brian

I don't know who else to contact with this...

Brian what do you think of reports that state the McCanns have be spotted jogging on several occasions?  Don't you think they should be spending this time looking for Maddie?

EK

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Hi, not at all...they should be running everyday, and this should come first.  I run on average 6 times a week at a minimum of at least 3 miles...every other day I run with 5lb weights on my arms.  For me running is a necessity, as it helps calm my mind and keep me focused on what I'm doing.  Not only is it good for your body, but more importantly the mind...running is most likely the main reason (besides love) the McCann's can stay so focused and motivated on their campaign to find their daughter...I personally disagree with the path they have chosen to find her...but at they are motivated.   If it were not for her parents, this would not nearly be such a bog news story in your part of the world.

Brian

Hi Brian

Following your last 3 RVs of 5 July 2007, here is the latest news on Madeleine McCann as below.

Sorry that the text is so long, but I thought you may be interested.

Regarding my previous email below, apparently it was Sergey Malinka that was more of the computer expert than Robert Murat, as apparently SM was designing a real estate website for RM. Did you find out whose IP address from Portugal hacked into your website? I hope that you did report that information to the UK police?

Kind regards

Z

P.S. All the best for your new baby.

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Thanks, and will post this information...thanks for taking the time to translate too.

Brian

“SOS Maddie

09/07/07

Important breakthrough this week.

By telephone, a few minutes ago, spokesman for PJ, Oleg de Sousa has confirmed that swoops are imminent. ANother source, close to the investigation has confirmed that reinforcements have been sent from Lisbon and we are expecting an important breakthrough this week on the hunt for the kidnappers.

The net seems to be tightening around those responsible for MM's abduction.

New suspects have been identified and are currently being traced in order to be interrrogated by PJ agents.

RM who lives 100m from wher MM disappeared, and who remains for the moment, the only suspect in the affair, was seized while he slept and taken in for questioning again. PJ believes that the abduction was perpetrated by more than one person.

Investigators believe that MM is still in Portugal, a belief shared by parents G and K McCann.

The McCanns have confirmed that they feel reassured by the developments in the investigation.Inspector Oleg de S spokemperson for PJ has again admitted to SOS Madeleine that it's possible that some witness statuses may change to that of "accused".

“Several members of the team of investigation of the PJ, in particular those which one charges the investigation of it of the removal of Madeleine McCann and which were to leave on holiday soon, one considering their period of holidays cancelled. The direction of the Criminal Investigation Department fears that research is affected by the departure of several their agents. This is why their plan of holidays to being given to later.

The investigation always concentrates on the sector in and around Praia de Luz where small the British, four years to summer seen for the last time.

The police force, as well as the McCann couple, continuous to believe that Maddie is retained in Portugal.

A source close to the investigation advances that the removal of Maddie is the work of a group of people and that other arrests are eminent.

McCann regularly informed of the advance of the investigation and one are already reaffirmed their confidence in the work of the investigators.

“We have a very good working relationship with the police force. Our determination to find Madeleine is the same one as theirs,” said Gerry. While waiting, the McCann family keeps a low profile, this after their removal in an apartment apart from the Ocean Club, from where Maddie is disappeared.”

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Translated from Portuguese:

Robert Murat, the main one suspected in the case of the disappearance of Madeleine and so far the only one arguido in the process, will be able already today to come back to be inquired by the Judiciary Policy, in Portimão. According to cm selected next to source next to the inquiry, the PJ wants to still hear some witnesses. In accordance with the chief-inspector, Olegário de Sousa, “are marked for this week some diligências with intervening in the process”. The spokesman of the PJ confirmed that Robert Murat is one of these people. The investigators intend to clarify details and eventual contradictions detected in previous declarations, as well as collating the witnesses and Murat with facts recently come the fire, not being to exclude the possibility of more people capsize to be constituted arguidas. Yesterday, as the cm already it had announced, the new British first-minister thanked the Portuguese authorities the developed efforts to find the girl English who disappeared of the Beach of the Light the 3 of May. Gordon Brown, who spoke after a meeting with Jose Sócrates, in Downing Street, guaranteed that the British Government will make everything what it will be to its reach to find Madeleine and disclosed to have said with Gerry and Kate McCann who are satisfied with the form as the inquiry elapses“

“In telephone contact, the spokesman of the Criminal Investigation Department, Olegário de Sousa, with confirmed with “S.O.S Maddie” that “of diligences are eminent”. Another source, near also to the investigation, with confirmed that reinforcements one sent from Lisbon, and that one expects an important opening this week in hunting for the kidnap”

“Arguido (English: discussed, questioned, interrogated) in Portuguese Law is a person's legal status ranging from that of a suspect, an accused, or a defendant, under British Law, depending on the process' stage. Under the Portuguese legal system, people who are questioned are not arrested but treated as witnesses. Arrests can only be made after police have designated an individual as an arguido. A person can also request this status for the rights it gives, such as the right to a legal representative and the right to remain”

Detectives want him to clarify various details and possible contradictions from his previous statements in the light of new information they have received.

Earlier, a police spokesman said: " Some people will be interviewed this week in connection with the Madeleine inquiry and Robert Murat is one of these people".

Officers believe more than one person is responsible for the abduction of four-year-old Madeleine, who has been missing since being abducted on May 3.

Mr Murat, who lived with his mother near the holiday apartment from where the British child went missing, was first questioned by police a fortnight after her disappearance.

Under strict Portuguese law, he is not allowed to discuss the case but has previously strenuously denied any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine.

“Faro, 10 Jul (Lusa) - the only one arguido in the case of the disappeared girl is to be heard in Department of Criminal Inquiry of Portimão, in the sequência of the inquiry of the PJ, said to the Lusa source of the inquiry. According to SIC Notice, would be also in installations of the Judiciary Policy of Portimão the German who is partner of Robert Murat in the branch real estate and its friend, both enrolled as witnesses in the same process. However, source of the PJ said to the Lusa that Spanish journalist to freelancer António Toscano goes Wednesday to dislocate it the Department of Criminal inquiry of Portimão to deliver documents that support its thesis of that girl will have been abducted for an individual known as “French El” and that this will have relations with nets pedófilas. That journalist already was heard in the scope of the inquiries, having itself dislocated Portugal in day 27 of June. In the height he delivered to all the elements that he affirmed to have on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Toscano explained that its displacement Portugal did not have as only purpose the delivery of documents ace Portuguese authorities but also the retraction of other information “to continue to investigate the case”. The director of the PJ, Alípio Ribeiro, affirmed two days after the visit of the Spanish journalist who its deposition did not deserve “particular credibility " to the Portuguese policy. The case, that has despertado world-wide interest, it originated already the detention of a couple in Spain and a man in Holland for alleged attempts of extortion to the parents of the British girl, Gerry and Kate McCann. Source of the PJ advanced that the inquiries they continue centered in the Beach of the Light where it believes that it will be the key for the disappearance of girl, while she keeps open the inquiry to the track of Spain, waiting still the results of collected biological vestiges in the apartment in Valegrand, in the province of Cádis. The tracks of Morocco and Holland had been already abandoning, since the Judiciary one considers “not to have indications to support the suspicion”. The girl disappeared the 3 of May of the room where she slept, folloied for the two brothers in aldeamento Ocean Club in the Beach of the Light, Lakes, while the parents had supper in the restaurant of resort about 50 meters. “

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Understand that all which is before the eyes is a mere reflection of the truth .. this will have been planned all along. The timing, the smokescreens ... the everything.

Transcript
Tuesday 10th July 2007
11:00pm - 11:30pm
NZ

If the current media stories are to be believed, the clouds are apparently clearing and major developments are happening with regard to finding Madeleine. It feels ethereal in its substance, a reflection of the truth ... moonbeams shine before my face when I contemplate the current news stories. Something so significant stares me in the face. I truly intuit the big event. Time needed to permit adjustments which need to be made. The necessity of obscurity within the protective of a concealed glade. But when does this big event take place? I know the shining star is dazzling in its countenance before me. The Seeker permits me to gaze through the billowing mists ... and I see the brightness there. Many faces are smiling. There is great relief.

But on the material plane at this current time ... there is only high expectations. We await the news of the hunters. Have they truly found their prey? Will they be in truth the correct prey? Or will they be merely actors in yet another smokescreen cast like a hologram before our eyes?


Activity all around me; hopefully the names will come. The two old dears at last make their presence felt. Its seemingly been a while since their last communion ...

There is no hurry. It will go at a snail's pace. There is a business to attend to behind it all. It is political and dramatic in its entirety. Madeleine is seen to be well. Composed faces stand around her. Photographs hung on walls are shown then taken down. Boxes filled and carried by hired hands. A white van takes these possessions to another place. She is merely waiting round impatient. An energetic little imp with such an infectious laugh. Head to one side she she looks up to the sun.

Roslyn ... doubtless a name linked to it all walks in and speaks to her again. A recent visitor this one. All who link aware of the story and are all sworn to secrecy. All taken the holy oath and all signed along the dotted line. Something like the official secrets act but not in so many words. One wears a vicars chain with a camera but no cameras allowed ... all are searched on entry and on leaving.

Jonathon; Mary; Micheal and Clare ... all appear to be around them but not all of them are yet there.

She plays in a yard with a dusty field at the back. Quite safe because the rest of the apartments are now empty. She's not been there long. She's been treated like a lady by people older than her because she is more an old head on young shoulders. She learns quick and she does actually understand what is to come and what has happened to her. Those who came for her were quick ... ready and planned. Nobody realised the activity around the three fast cars and the van. Then she was out and quickly indoors. It all went as planned.

The man at the top heard on the phone; made some other calls so now quickly it can be planned. It was all as it was said it would be. Actioned for soaring numbers ...

Servants of the Light tarot

Maker of Crescents depicts he who can truly gain from this campaign. His vessel of plans cutting through the tides of public demand and emotional security. All things neptunium here ... deeply disguised and hidden. People are after all easily deceived. Understand that all which is before the eyes is a mere reflection of the truth .. the maker of crescents grabs crescents from the moon and uses it to the best of his ability. Know this will have been planned all along. The timing, the smokescreens ... the everything. Seemingly the little girl was not actually 'abducted' after all ... the term was used to best contribute to the cause.

The Lovers depict the apparent harmony and order decreed soon by a leader of the higher echelons. A represent of the creator is silent as yet; soon there will be expectations for the leader to speak. It all appears well ... it all appears calm. It appears a solution and a happy ending is finally written ... is planned ... and will take place.

The Four of Weapons ... two palms depicting secret symbols rise above a table on which four swords and a white table cloth are lain. It is not possible to see inside or behind the table ... from where the arms belonging to the hands are hidden. In the background see the rising sun ... or perhaps the shining star ... or even perhaps another conflagration. The imagery depicts recovery and rest ... but for who is this relating? For the shining star because she has perhaps already been found ... this is the subterfuge, the cover up and the hidden hands which this imagery is saying? Also ... in appears a significant agency will benefit from her safe return. The trojan horse which this perhaps was designed as all along?

Added by Matthew James At 22:57

Index: Clairvoyancy, Daily Merlin, Divination, Occult, Remote Viewing

The Ten Levels of Consciousness

A Representation of the Tree of Life

Ten levels of consciousness reaching from earth to pure spirit.

10. Physical sensation.
9. Dream, imagination.
8. Reasoning about material things.
7. Emotional feeling about material things.
6. Perspective on life.
5. Reasoning about right and wrong.
4. Feelings of spiritual well-being.
3. Very abstract reasoning.
2. Excitement without known cause.
1. Peaceful feeling and knowing about the unity of all that exists.

Added by Matthew James At 22:19

Index: Kabbalah, Meditation, Occult

One Step at a Time ..

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time."
-- Sydney Smiles

"Often he who does too much does too little."
-- Italian Proverb

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape."

Added by Matthew James At 21:55

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Robert Murat - the single accused in the file of disappearance of Madeleine McCann - is turned over to the PJ of Portimão, or it is again questioned, this time Ci in the presence of a lawyer.

A source close to the investigation, advances that the agents of the PJ want to re-examine the declarations of the suspect and to confront them with new elements. The same source advances as in next the 48 hours, there will be several interrogations, in particular that of Michaela Walczuch, a 33 years allemande, and her husband, Luis Antonio, Portuguese.

“S.O.S Madeleine” and “S.O.S Maddie” one desired knowledge if McCann and his/her table companions with Typed Bar, the night of the disappearance of Maddie, with new are questioned, but the Criminal Investigation Department did not want, for the moment, to confirm this information. Between the group, consisted nine people, there would be David Payne, Jane Tanner, Russel O' Brien, and Mathew Oldfield.

And, old news but interesting:

Old news…

Madeleine: Is Robert Murat a suspect or a scapegoat?
by DAVID JONES Last updated at 11:06am on 2nd June 2007
In the eyes of many, Robert Murat has already been tried and found guilty of abducting Madeleine. But David Jones has had the first full interview with him - and comes to a very unsettling conclusion
Last Wednesday, while Gerry and Kate McCann were in Rome imploring the Pope to pray for the safe return of their four-year-old daughter, Madeleine, I spent a disquieting afternoon on the Algarve, drinking coffee with Robert Murat.
Depending on your point of view (and in a tragedy whose every grim twist is played out in the public gaze, everyone has an opinion), Murat is either the most vile creature on earth or the most unjustly vilified.
Eighteen days ago, this enigmatic, Portuguese-raised Englishman was arrested on suspicion of abducting Madeleine from a holiday apartment just 120 yards from the villa he shares with his widowed mother, Jenny.
Robert Murat: Suspect or scapegoat?
Murat was released without charge after 19 hours of questioning. Yet today - a month after Madeleine's hauntingly pretty face first became etched in our collective nightmares - he remains the only formally identified police suspect.
Ordinarily, of course, an accused man retains his innocence until proven guilty. But this is no ordinary case. The McCanns' increasingly desperate publicity campaign (yesterday they were in Madrid) has made it the most high-profile child abduction in history.
So, inevitably, every aspect of Robert Murat's life is being subjected to microscopic scrutiny. And in the absence of confirmed facts, wild rumours are circulating about his life and background.
If we believe some of what has been written about him, Murat is a pervert who fits the profile of a child abductor all too well. He may be the father of a four-year-old girl, but, according to unnamed sources, he is a social misfit who visits paedophile websites.
It has also been suggested that he coldly volunteered to assist in the hunt for Madeleine to glean inside information, and remain one step ahead of the police investigation, just as Ian Huntley did after the Soham murders.
Weighed with various accrued morsels of suspicion against him - an unexplained 11.40pm phone call on the night of the abduction; a car hired hastily two days later - some close observers have concluded that Murat is, indeed, the monster who took Madeleine, and that it is only a matter of time before he is formally charged with her abduction.
Over the forthcoming days, they may yet be proved right, though given the performance of the Portuguese police, this seems unlikely. For the story Murat had to tell me raises profound and disturbing questions about the nature of the Madeleine investigation.
"They held me for all that time, but they didn't even take a DNA sample from me," he told me, incredulously. "Can you believe that? I would happily have provided a swab."
Assuming Murat is telling the truth, this is a jaw- dropping omission, and throws the entire forensic operation into question.
Privately, it will doubtless appall the McCanns. However, a source close to the couple assures me they do not believe Murat took their daughter, regarding him as a "sad loner" whose involvement has distracted attention which could have been usefully deployed elsewhere.
At the risk of being proved foolish, having spent 90 minutes with Murat - who chatted to me in the bar of his cousin's guesthouse near Praia da Luz - I believe the McCanns' instincts are probably right. Either that, or Murat is a consummate actor.

Madeleine McCann: Snatched from her apatrment, but RObert Murat remains the only named suspect
He was first thrust to the forefront of the investigation after a journalist found his behaviour sufficiently odd to merit reporting to the Portuguese police.
In a career spanning 30 years, I, too, have met some pretty despicable characters, but there was no aura of evil about the man I encountered last Wednesday.
Despite being under such stress that he has lost more than a stone, and has turned from a non-smoker into a 40-a-day man, Murat was reasonably articulate and polite. He even apologised for swearing.
Within the confines of Portuguese law, which forbids a suspected criminal to defend himself on peril of imprisonment, his denial of any involvement in Madeleine's abduction carried the ring of truth.
That said, he shows little insight into the way that some of his protestations leave him wide open to accusations of, at best, insensitivity and, at worst, utter callousness. For example, at one stage in our conversation he compared his own suffering to that of Gerry and Kate McCann.
"I'm going through exactly the same experience as the McCanns, so I can empathise with them,' he told me, seemingly unable to understand that no one - not even a man perhaps wrongly accused of child abduction - could begin to understand their torment.
"Whenever there's a sighting of a little girl, my hopes rise. And when it's not Madeleine, they sink, just like the McCanns'. Why? Because if they find Madeleine my name will be cleared."
Later, when protesting his innocence, Murat made another wholly inappropriate remark.
"It might sound harsh, but if anyone has broken the law, then the McCanns have," he said, frowning behind the thick-lensed glasses he has worn since a motorcycle accident cost him the sight of an eye.
"Portuguese law says that you can't leave young children unattended. They say they were eating in the complex (the Ocean Club, where the family were holidaying). But actually the apartment is outside, across an alley. So, I'm sorry, but they broke the law.
"I would never leave my daughter (Sofia, who lives with his estranged wife, in Norfolk). I won't let her out of my sight because she gets up at night and walks off.
"That said, I wouldn't criticise them because children are different, and only they know how their kids behave."
Listening to Murat talk in this manner, one wonders whether even the PR guru Max Clifford - who has offered his services to him, if and when he is cleared - can salvage his reputation.
But whatever we make of Murat, one thing is plain: he inhabits such a different world from the McCanns - caring parents, brilliant medical professionals, devout Roman Catholics.
Ultimately, however, only one thing matters: is Robert Murat telling the truth?
Even to start addressing that question, we need to return to the night, one month ago, when Madeleine disappeared from her bed in apartment 5A of the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz, some time between 9.10pm and 10pm, as her parents ate supper in a tapas restaurant roughly 40 yards away.
The most plausible theory holds that she was snatched by someone who had studied Gerry and Kate's movements, possibly for days, and knew their evening routine.
Madeleine and their two-year-old twins, Sean and Amelia, were left alone in the apartment, but were checked approximately every 30 minutes. And this provides the first inconsistency in the case against Murat. He says he returned to Portugal, after a lengthy spell in Britain, at 9.40am, on Tuesday, May 1, two days before Madeleine's disappearance.
"So I am supposed to have planned the kidnapping of a little girl inside 50 hours," he told me, shaking his head.
"In that time, I supposedly identified the apartment where she was sleeping and spied on her, and worked out the times her parents went to dinner each night, then took her away. It's ludicrous.
"If you want my opinion, it had to involve someone on the inside, who works at the Ocean Club.
"How else would the abductor know when it was safe to take Madeleine? Have the police started looking at the people who work there? If not, they should."
The answer to Murat's question is 'Yes'. The police have checked out the Ocean Club staff - after a fashion. In the early days, all who worked there were interviewed. Yet, typically in an investigation botched and lax almost beyond belief, the questions were hardly probing.
By contrast, Murat was grilled for 19 hours, during which time he claims to have been offered only water. Fearing being jailed for speaking out, he declines to describe his experience, but says "it wasn't very pleasant".
"I was moved from room to room and interviewed by different people. You wouldn't believe the sort of things they asked me."
Meanwhile, detectives combed his mother's villa inch by inch and took away her green Volkswagen camper van.
They also confiscated five computers: three belonging to Murat, and two owned by a former business partner.
The hard drives are still being examined, but when I ask him about the allegation, reported by the Portuguese Press, that pornography of the most depraved kind has been found on one of the computers, he snapped: "It's scandalous. It's just made up. Pure fantasy."
So what is the firm evidence against him? Does his background perhaps offer some insight into the cold-hearted man some suspect him to be?
Born Robert James Queriol Eveleigh Murat, on November 20, 1973, he hails from an old family of port wine exporters. His late father John's ancestors settled in Portugal in the early 1700s, a history he plays up proudly.
His appearance is uncomfortably close to the description of Madeleine's likely abductor, which was provided by one of the McCanns' holiday companions who witnessed a man carrying a child away from the resort - a key piece of evidence belatedly released by the police this week.
Aged 33, Murat is about 5ft 8in, clean-shaven, stockily built and has short brown hair. He has a classless accent and behaves in the slightly superior, old-fashioned manner of an Englishman raised and educated abroad.
His early years were spent on the western tip of the Algarve, before it became an overdeveloped magnet for British expats-After leaving school, he sought work in the UK, drifting between menial jobs, including spells in a Norfolk garage and the Bernard Matthews turkey plant.
At 19, he began a relationship with a married woman eight years his senior, Dawn Chapman. She already had a son, aged six, but divorced and married Murat at Gretna Green, in March 2001. Their daughter, Sofia, was born 18 months later.
Murat's ambitions always extended beyond turkey-processing, but he never progressed in Britain. Finally, two years ago, he returned to Praia da Luz to forge a career in property sales.
With Dawn and Sofia, he moved into his mother's spacious £350,000 villa, Casa Liliana, barely visible behind a tall stand of pine trees amid unprepossessing breeze-block holiday apartments.
Murat's grand scheme foundered after barely three months. In September 2005, after a series of rows about his long working hours, his wife and daughter flew back to Britain.
He has since formed a relationship with a thirty-something German property saleswoman, Michaela Walczuch, who lives with her husband in nearby Lagos.
They have been described as lovers, but Murat denies this. "She's my partner, and we are very, very, very close - but she's not my girlfriend because she can't be. She's a Jehovah's Witness and she's still married. I'm not a Witness, but I attend study classes."
In recent months, Murat says, he has been striving to set up an on-line property sales business. His website was being designed by Sergey Malinka, 22, one of many Russians eking out a living on the Algarve.
However, Murat spent the spring in Sidmouth, Devon, renovating a house bequeathed to his mother, Jennifer, 71. He says it was she who collected him from Faro airport on May 1, a story she confirmed to me.
If we believe him, Murat spent the two days before the abduction in meetings about his website.
On Thursday, May 3, he returned home at about 8pm and ate supper with his mother. He thinks they had cheese and ham sandwiches. "I'm not much of a one for eating in the evening."
He claims to have passed the evening chatting with his mother and, again, she supports his alibi.
"It's an absolute nightmare," Mrs Murat told me. She is weatherbeaten and wears her long grey hair in a bun.
"I've lived in this area for 40 years. Now I can't walk into the supermarket. It's the biggest character assassination ever. Robert's older sister, Samantha, says he's the cleanest person she's ever known."
By Murat's account, he first learned about Madeleine's disappearance around 7.30am the following morning, when Samantha phoned from Devon after watching the news on TV.
Feeling the need to help, he quickly headed to the Ocean Club, mingling with the throng of police officers, family members and search volunteers.
As he is bilingual, he offered to interpret, and was later requested by the police to sign an oath of secrecy. "That's a matter of public record.'
At some stage, he recalls, he spoke to Gerry McCann but he can't remember what passed between them. I ask him if he would like to meet the McCanns now? "I don't think that would serve any purpose for either of us," he replies, deadpan.
According to one witness, Murat went in and out of the McCanns' apartment. It has been suggested that he did this quite deliberately, so that he would have an explanation if and when his DNA was found inside.
However, he told me adamantly that he has never been inside apartment 5A, and knows its layout only because he searched a similar flat in the same block.
All this sounded plausible enough. His manner was less assured when I asked about the late-night mobile phone call to Sergey Malinka on the night of Madeleine's disappearance - a call he initially denied making, leaving some to suggest that the two men were in league. "I've checked my phone records and I admit they do show I made a call at 11.40pm," he says, lighting another cigarette.
"It lasted 30 seconds, so we must have talked, but I honestly can't remember what about. He was setting up my website, so it was probably that.
"It might seem very late to call someone, but that's how we live here. Afterwards, I phoned my sister. I rarely go to bed before midnight or 1am."
Ironically, Murat believes his mobile phone offers the best hope of proving his innocence.
He claims it is always switched on and in his possession.
British experts are said to have been coopted to pinpoint its precise whereabouts between 9.10pm and 10pm on May 3, using data about its position in relation to nearby phone masts, which can provide a mobile's location accurate to a radius of a few yards.
But this would be significant only if Murat could prove the phone was with him during that crucial window of time. Until these tests are complete, he is left in limbo.
"Basically, I'm just an ordinary, straightforward guy who's the victim of the biggest f***-up on this planet - if you'll excuse the language," he said.
Murat's gay American designer friend, Tuck Price, 43, who flitted in and out of the room during our interview, hardly helps his cause.
"When this is all over, I hope he makes a buck or two out of it," Price said shamelessly. "He bloody deserves it."
If Murat does, indeed, "make a buck", we may come to regard him in the same vein as Colin Stagg, who was wrongly accused of the Rachel Nickell murder on Wimbledon Common, for little reason other than that he was a local oddball who seemed to fit the frame. He is about to receive a huge police compensation pay-out.
Or will he turn out to be another Ian Huntley?
For Gerry and Kate McCann's sake, we can only hope that we find out unequivocally, one way or the other - and soon.

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There was no official comment from the police but sources said detectives were anxious to clarify details of his evidence - especially statements made when Murat, 33, helped police in the initial search for the four-year-old.

Murat had told journalists that he did not join the search until the second day - but claimed to police at the time of his first arrest that he had been there on the first night, when Maddy went missing in Praia da Luz.

Detectives want him to clarify various-details and possible contradictions from his previous statements in the light of new information they have received.

Briton Murat, 33, came under suspicion while helping journalists' investigations after he told them he had been in the McCanns' apartment in the aftermath of the abduction, translating for the police.

The Murat family has insisted he had nothing to do with Maddy's disappearance - saying he was having dinner with his mother the night it happened.

His mother's villa, at the end of the road which leads to the flat where the McCanns were staying when the youngster was snatched, was one of five properties in the area of Praia Da Luz which has been searched by police.

I have have not had any dreams related to this case in some time, I just tried to do a another rv and this is all I could see...three black poles.  That's all I can see, and it was very blury...again this might have nothing to do with this case.

7.16.2007

Regarding McCann...agree everyone is focusing on this case but don't think the
worst about it please. Be patient Brian. God will deliver and I have known this
from the get go. Like everyone else though, I get very antsy waiting. I believe
the reason for the attention is many others will be located....some of the 39
others who have been abducted by same people. It is all for the good. If
anything, pray for her safety, safety of others and PATIENCE. The attention
Maddie is getting is NOT a waste of time and energy.

Also, you may want to do an RV on Sergie (Robert's connection) from the begining
of the case who is a computer expert.

DW