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MADDY: THREE ACCUSED  EXCLUSIVE
Investigators think friends may have plotted kidnap

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX NEWS NOVEMBER 2007
Original Source: MIRROR; 20 NOVEMBER 2007
By Graham Brough And Martin Fricker
20/11/2007
 
Three friends may have been behind Madeleine McCann's kidnap, investigators claimed last night.

Private detectives fear Robert Murat, girlfriend Michaela Walczuch and her estranged husband Luis Antonio were part of an organised ring that snatched the four-year-old. Pool cleaner Antonio worked at the resort where Maddy vanished and had full access to the complex.

He could have spied on her before the plot was hatched.

A source said: "The connection would appear to be very significant."

Investigators claim Antonio, 47, could have easily got German-born Walczuch into the secure Mark Warner resort at Praia da Luz.

Yesterday the 34-year-old was named by the Mirror as the woman spotted bundling a child into a car two days after Maddy vanished.

At the time she was living with Antonio, who worked at the pool where Gerry and Kate McCann took their three children daily.

We can also reveal new witness statements taken recently claim Murat - an "arguido" in the case - was spotted near Maddy's holiday apartment the night she vanished, despite him insisting he was at home nearby.

He returned next day and became an unofficial translator for police - giving him access to statements. It is claimed he told some workers at the complex to speak to him if they had information before going to the police.
Our source added: "This phase of the investigation has found many people linking Murat to the scene that night.

"It seems significant he is denying it despite multiple sightings.

"Putting himself forward as a translator on that first chaotic morning afterwards also put him well in place to get the inside track of the investigation, perhaps cleverly, it may transpire.

"I would be amazed if Murat is not questioned again very soon over these new findings."

Portuguese sources claim the ex-pat could be further quizzed this week.

Yesterday Walczuch - who lives in Lagos, near Praia da Luz - refused to comment on claims she was seen with a girl resembling Madeleine in central Portugal on May 5. Murat's lawyer Francisco Pagarete was with her. He said: "These allegations are ridiculous."

Independent forensic tests of Kate and Gerry's hire car in Portugal found none of Madeleine's DNA, it emerged last night.

Home Office-approved pathologists carried out the examinations.

Millionaire businessman Brian Kennedy, 47, who has helped fund the couple's campaign to find their daughter, said: "We've carried out our own tests which found no trace of Madeleine in the hire car."

Portuguese police have claimed Maddy's DNA was found in the boot of the Renault Scenic and insist her body was there.

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