Daily Express Headline, Says: Key witnesses cannot agree on crucial events surrounding Madeleine McCann’s kidnap. The officer leading the hunt last night revealed the impasse thwarting the investigation. In particular, chief suspect Robert Murat’s alibi has been thrown into doubt by a number of discrepancies in evidence about the night she was snatched in Praia da Luz on May 3.
Chief Inspector Sousa said: “They have been brought together in the same building. They have been discussing some differences between the things they said about the night Madeleine disappeared.”
Police were yesterday assessing their findings after subjecting property developer Murat to a 16-hour interrogation. Their re-examination of the sole official suspect included a face-to-face confrontation with the three friends which could shatter Murat’s alibi.
The trio of friends have told police they saw Murat close to the McCanns’ ground-floor apartment.
All four attended the headquarters of the Policia Judiciara on Wednesday, where they spent two hours in a room with detectives and Murat’s solicitor giving their differing versions of events.
Hauling a suspect before witnesses who challenge an alibi – or whose statements contradict that of the arguido or official suspect – is a common legal manoeuvre by police in Portugal.
It is not yet known what the outcome of the showdown was, but Murat underwent a further six hours of questioning after the Britons left the station. He also claims he has been made a scapegoat over the police failure to find the abductor. But he is unable legally to speak about the case while he remains an official suspect.
Daily Merlin Insight
11;10pm - 11:20pm
Saturday 14th July 2007
Merlin Tarot
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4 of Fishes - Truce
Judgement
Page of Beasts
The Page of Beasts depicts the imagery of a tilled field, a young page working the land holding an empty vessel in its hands with a cunning fox in the foreground of the image. There are four acorns close by.
Relating to the situation, the field has been tilled and seeds planted but it has been found to bear no fruit. Patience appears to be the order of the day to crack this stalemate. The cunning fox is stalking its prey; in some way it seeks to capture the unwitting prey who seems not to be the most obvious one. Murat seems to be the lamb to the slaughter ... the bait for a trap. It is someone else's discrepancies under the microscope here.
Someone close to the McCanns can perhaps collaborate a statement here but it is likely to herald unexpected results. The portends here are that it will favour the one who stands on his own and direct further doubt in the direction of one on the other side of the duel. It will send minds into a quandary. Some hidden revelations appertaining to an old man who links to a child ... a relation to a child; history from an incident in the past perhaps to make the news.
A sub-plot behind the scenes seems to be heading towards a truce between two sides.
