Madeleinesta, voisko joku suomentaa?

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I' m home and I' m still being bombarded with emails offering clues to Madeleine' s disappearance and who did it.



At the airport everyone I met wanted to talk about the case and offered their own thoughts on what happened. A common complaint to me is that there are few posters of Madeleine outside Praia da Luz.



Gerry McCann is back, too, but only briefly. There must be so many domestic matters that cannot be handled properly from Portugal.



But the couple say they will stay indefinitely in the Algarve until they have firm news of their daughter. A cop who deals with such cases in the UK says any future decision to leave would be a huge psychological barrier to overcome. It would be tantamount to abandoning Madeleine, leaving her behind.



No word on the police investigation... their ' briefings' are aptly named. They continue to insist they don' t need to share with the public any possible sightings of Madeleine or any suspicious vehicles they¿re hunting.



As far as I know Robert Murat remains the only suspect. No sign yet that he' s willing to talk more fully about what he' s going through.



When I was chatting to him across the kitchen table in Casa Liliana he and his mother Jenny were annoyed about reports of his ' glass' eye.



A young woman who had been to school with him had described on air how he used to entertain his classmates by popping out the eye and rolling it around in his hand.



The truth is, he doesn' t have a glass eye. He is blind in his right eye because of a torn retina, the result of a motorbike accident when he was a teenager.



He leaned forward while we chatted about it and showed me. Behind his rimless glasses, the eye is bloodshot, but it moves as he talks.



Intriguingly, a friend asked me if Mr. Murat' s damaged eye is the same eye in which Madeleine has a distinctive mark on her iris. It is, it' s the right eye.



The miss-reporting of his ' glass' eye is typical of the mass of inaccurate and plain crazy stories that were flying around the resort as I left.



The cops must be under huge commercial pressure to find Madeleine and solve the case. Half-term is looming and the place will be much busier.



Some of those who booked before Madeleine' s disappearance have, apparently, asked to be moved from the Ocean complex or even to another resort.



Others have asked for discounts...can you believe that?

Written by Martin, May 21, 2007