Murat muutti kertomustaan Madeleinen kidnappausyöstä.

Ystävilleen väitti ollensa saksalaisen tyttöystävänsä kanssa, mutta poliisille kertoi, että oli katoamisyönä äitinsä kanssa.



Turhaan eivät poliisit ole tutkineet Muratin taloa, sillä hän on selvästi sekaantunut Madeleinen kaappaamiseen.



Saturday July 28,2007



Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat changed his alibi when questioned by police, it was claimed yesterday.



The British expat is said to have told friends he was with his German girlfriend when Madeleine was snatched from her family' s holiday apartment.



But Murat ¿ he is the only official suspect in the case ¿ told Portuguese detectives that he was with his mother on the night the four-year-old disappeared.



Details of the alleged inconsistencies in 33-year-old Murat' s alibi were leaked to Portuguese newspaper Sol.



Reports said he realised he had fallen under suspicion in the days after Mad­eleine was kidnapped in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.



He is said to have told friends and police, with whom he was working as a translator, that he spent the evening with German lover Michaela Walczuch, 39.



" But when he was taken to the police station, he told them he was with his mother Jennifer," a police source said yesterday.



" Since then he has stuck to that and it has become his official alibi. Nobody knows why he changed his story."



Michaela, who is married to a Portuguese swimming pool cleaner, has also been questioned by police.



Detectives will not reveal what she told them during lengthy interviews last month and she has refused to comment.



Police have also been told that Murat asked a number of people to give him an alibi for the night Madeleine was snatched.



The source said: " This was one more incident which led to suspicions falling on him."



Earlier this month Murat was hauled into police headquarters in Portimao to be quizzed about his differing versions of events.



During the interviews Murat insisted he spent the evening with his 71-year-old mother at her villa 100 yards from the apartment where Madeleine was snatched.



He claimed he had an early night and had no idea a child had been taken until the following day. His mother has backed his evidence in a sworn testimony.



She insisted her son did not leave the villa between finishing his evening meal and going to bed.



The Sol newspaper report said phone records back up their claims. A source said: " There are calls from phones and cell phones that prove that, at the time he was seen, he was actually at home."



But detectives say although calls were made from his mother' s villa the records do not prove he made them or that he was there all night. Murat has always protested his innocence and insists that he has been made a scapegoat by the police.



But fresh doubts were cast over his alibi in recent weeks after eyewitnesses contradicted his claims.



Friends of Madeleine' s parents Kate and Gerry told police they saw him outside the apartment shortly after she was taken.



Earlier this month the McCanns' friends, doctors Russell O' Brien and Fiona Payne, with another friend, Rachael Oldfield, flew to Portugal to be questioned.



It led to an extraordinary face-to-face showdown during which one of the group accused Murat of lying in an angry finger-pointing outburst.



The friends were certain they recognised Murat because of his distinctive " lazy" right eye.



Despite reports of sightings of Madeleine across Europe, police are now convinced the solution will be found in Praia da Luz ¿ where she disappeared 86 days ago.



Another couple of significant details found in the news today!



" The McCanns' friends Fiona Payne and Rachael Oldfield say they saw him outside Madeleine' s apartment at 11.45pm, soon after she went missing. Another pal, Russell O' Brien, says he saw Murat at 1am.



Portuguese villagers have also told police they saw him that night. He remains the only formal suspect."