Daily Mail: About 8pm on the evening of May 3, 2007,
Jenny Murat, a British expatriate living in the coastal village of Praia
da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve, notices a woman staring intently at an
apartment block next to the Ocean Club, a small holiday complex popular
with British families.
‘I saw the woman
standing on the corner of the street,’ Mrs Murat later recalled. ‘She
caught my eye because she was dressed in purple-plum clothes. It struck
me as strange. It’s so usual for anyone, particularly a woman, to be standing alone on the street in our resort, just watching a building.’
Sometime during the next two hours,
three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappears from an apartment in that
same block as her parents dine with friends nearby.
‘The
next morning, we heard that a little girl had gone missing, and I later
told police about the woman I’d seen right outside,’ Mrs Murat
continued. ‘I didn’t recognise her and don’t have a clue who she is, but
she seems a bit suspicious.’
It is
this ‘woman in purple’, the Mail understands, who is keeping alive
Operation Grange, the marathon reinvestigation of the Madeleine McCann
case by Scotland Yard, now in its sixth year...read more>>>...
