The British will request more diligences after questionings without results

After having spent eight hours at the PJ in Faro without replying to any question, Robert Murat was heard yesterday during approximately four hours. The questioning of the Anglo-Portuguese man - the first arguido in the investigation into the disappearance of Maddie from Praia da Luz, in Lagos, in 2007, later cleared - was the last one of eleven that took place over four days. Nevertheless, the questioning failed to produce new arguidos or relevant data. The English are now expected to send a new letter rogatory, for more diligences to be carried out.

Robert Murat had been summoned for a deposition at the PJ on Wednesday, just like his wife, Michaela Walzuc, also a witness. But only the latter replied to the authorities' questions that day, as Murat's lawyer, Francisco Pagarete, raised a juridical matter, due to his client having already been subject to questioning about the same facts, having been cleared. Therefore, it was only yesterday that he replied to approximately two hundred questions that had been prepared by Scotland Yard, and left in a PJ car in the company of his lawyer, thus ending this round of diligences.

None of the eleven witnesses was made arguido and as far as CM was able to establish, no new data was added to the investigation following the questionings that have been taking place since Tuesday. Nicola Wall, the chief inspector that replaces Andy Redwood as the coordinator of the investigation at the end of the month, was not at the PJ yesterday. But it0s her who will decide which new steps are to be taken to try to solve Maddie's disappearance.