'Major New Breakthrough'

Daily Express Headline; says 'British detectives believe the kidnapper of Madeleine McCann was working with an accomplice, it was sensationally revealed yesterday. Police have taped off the home of chief suspect Robert Murat and have been digging up his garden. But they have been covertly tailing and videoing the suspected accomplice for weeks after being alerted by his suspicious behaviour.

A witness who saw Murat on the night Madeleine was snatched says he saw the suspect drunk in a bar the same evening and police believe the new evidence could blow Murat’s alibi wide open. They are working on the theory that it would have taken more than one person to smuggle the four-year-old out of her holiday apartment and make a successful getaway. The suspected accomplice was seen, with a child wrapped in a blanket, heading towards the seafront at the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.

Detectives believe the youngster’s abductors could have been spying on the family for several days, observing their daily routine.

The revelation comes after a Portuguese newspaper reported new details of a suspect. It was said that Irish expatriate Martin Smith spotted the man near the town’s church at 9.50pm on May 3, the night Madeleine was snatched.

Mr Smith insisted the suspect was not Murat, 33, who he had seen drunk in a local bar earlier that evening. If accurate, his testimony casts fresh doubt over Murat’s alibi.

Murat told police he had spent the evening with his mother Jennifer, 71, at her home 100 yards from the holiday apartment where Madeleine was abducted.

Yesterday police called off their weekend search of the property, Casa Liliani, after 22 hours. Their raid came after “significant” new information emerged in the 95-day investigation.

Detectives launched the surveillance operation on the second suspect after “credible” information was handed to them. Police have not found any evidence to link Murat to the McCanns’ apartment despite extensive forensic tests. DNA found in the apartment belonged either to the McCanns or the friends on holiday with them.

But there is one DNA sample which police have not been able to identify. It has been checked with international criminal databases but has not produced a match.



I'm not going to permit any more conflicting information to 'cloud' my vision here. I've had sufficient time now to run the seemingly disjointed current events around in my head. With strengthening instinct flowing I deduce that this appears to have a sense of being 'old' information ... old snippets of the investigation mixed in with the new.

Following this train of thought I perceive there was 'good news' in recent times. What I sense is therefore the continuation of the investigation in recent & current days to now focus on apprehending the perpetrators now that the danger has passed.

Perhaps I am divulging only a 'supposition' or a 'psychic theory' here ... but then again, perhaps I am not. Maybe the mystery is meant to continue to let 'the perpetrators' think the trail seekers are off their scent. IF Madeleine HAS recently been returned, in a discreet locality under the cloak of this deliberate smokescreen ... then perhaps the investigation still labours on ... in order to catch those who had her. After all I did intuit in an earlier insight that Maddy's return may be undertaken by an 'order of the faith' who were sworn to keep the perpetrator's identity hidden under the rights of a confession. The perpetrators perhaps handing Madeleine to a priest or priests in a church in recent weeks.