The alibi of Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat's girlfriend was thrown into doubt yesterday. Friends of Michaela Walczuch claimed she had told police she was at a Jehovah's Witness prayer meeting on the night three-year-old Madeleine vanished.
But a woman at the church said she was not at the meeting while other worshippers said she was "cast aside" by their community more than a year ago. They claimed Portuguese police had not taken the trouble to check her alibi.
A man at the church, who refused to give his name but said he was a "brother" in the group, said: "I haven't been interviewed. The police haven't been here." The man, identified by locals as Teofilo Castela, refused to say why Miss Walczuch, 34, was thrown out of the congregation.
But she is known to have been seeing Mr Murat for almost two years while still living with estranged husband Luis Antonio. The strange set-up was thought to have angered Jehovah's Witness elders.
Mr Castela said. "She was cast aside. It was before this year. The church has certain rules and they must not be broken."
Claims that Miss Walczuch was at the church would have given her a solid alibi for the night that Madeleine disappeared. (Daily Mail)
