There were inconsistencies too with regards to Murat and also Sergey Malinka. Do you think that other possible suspects should be ignored? Particularly, those who had sudden memory lapses concerning meetings and late night phone calls. I also would like to know if Murat really did travel further than what he claimed he did in the rental car he hired a few days after the event. Also, of interest, why he claimed he didn't know how to encrypt files when several were found on his computer and why did he initially claim that he was with Michaela on the evening of the disappearance then later had to say that he wasn't. I'm sure if I trawled through the files I'd find more oddities, with regards to Malinka as well. Much worse, if true that someone reported to the investigation that paedophile material was once seen on his computer by someone.
Robert Murat was certainly not the abductor as we know now because Tanner's sighting of him has been discredited. But why hasn't he sued Jane Tanner since and the other Tapas who supported her? Was he a willing patsy until it got too much for him? He got his payout from the media and is now happily married to Michaela. There is evidence to suggest that he and Jane Tanner knew each other in Exeter as he was there for 10 days before being contacted by the Tapas9 to come back to Portugal to help them but that has not been proven yet by PJ. Translator? The Portuguese connection of an elite pedophile ring? Willing patsy? Help with the body? Who knows? But one thing is for sure is that he lied in his first statement as compared to his second one. Why?
Dewi Lennard @ kikoratton on twitter did extensive research on Murat's and Michaela's phone calls and found out that he had lied on his first statement compared to his second one and was also in contact with Gerry McCann before May 3. They also turned their mobile phones off and one at the very same time.
Tony Bennett also did research on Murat and discovered the following:
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A summary of Murats 17 changes of story about what he did on 1, 2, 3 and 4 May
You may by now have lost count of the number of changes in Robert Murats story about what he was doing between 1 and 4 May, so heres a convenient summary of his new account of events, and how these contradicted his earlier account of events:
1. Remembers that on 1 May he tried to contact Jorge da Silva.
2. Remembers that on 2 May he didnt leave home at 10.30am but instead had a meeting with Sergei Malinka at the Batista Supermarket.
3. He had in fact taken Michaela and Malinka back to his mothers house in Praia da Luz for a further discussion, something hed omitted to tell the police in the first interview.
4. He now remembered visiting his bank and paying in 287.51 euros.
5. He now remembered hed called at the home of Francisco Pagarete, his lawyer, that morning.
6. He now remembers that he had met Francisco Pagarete that afternoon.
7. He now remembers that another of Jorges sons was present at their meeting in the café in the afternoon.
8. The meeting in the café went on much longer than he had said previously.
9. He thinks that Michaela Walczuks husband Luis Antonio may not have been present at Michaelas house that evening, contrary to what he had previously said.
10. On 3 May, he had not woken at 9.00am as previously stated, but at 8.00am.
11. He had not driven to Michaelas house that morning after 10.00am as previously stated; instead he had left home at 8.45am for a 9.30am meeting with the owner of the business tourist complex called Gold Bunker in the Espiche district and her father-in-law.
12. He now remembered that he and Michaela had visited two apartments for about 30 minutes, probably on the afternoon of 3 May.
13. He and Michaela had lunch with the owner of the Gold Bunker complex and her father-in-law, a fact he had not disclosed to police before.
14. Michaelas daughter C______ was not with them that day, contrary to his previous story.
15. They went to the Palmares Golf Club in the afternoon, another fact Murat had failed to disclose.
16. He now admitted to making two telephone calls, to Sergei Malinka and Michaela, at 11.39pm and 11.40pm that night.
17. He previously said he had woken at 9.00am on Friday 4 May. He now admitted he had telephoned Michaela at 8.27am and must have got up earlier.
A possible interpretation of these changes of story could be along these lines; namely that during his first statement, Murat did not want to admit to:
· meeting with Sergei Malinka at the Batista supermarket on 2 May at around 10.00am
· he and Michaela being in the Espiche/Almádena area at around 9.30am on 3 May
· his meeting with the owner of the Gold Bunker complex
· he, Michaela and the da Silvas being at the Palmares Golf Club on the afternoon of 3 May
· that he had visited two apartments on the afternoon of 3 May.
We make no other comment on the large number of changes of story but leave the reader to form his or her own judgment as to why there were so many changes. We will however add to this discussion by a poster on the maddiecasefiles internet forum, who analysed these discrepancies in Murats account of those few days:
Jorge Miguel Rocha da Silva tells us that even on the day Murat returned from Exeter (1 May), he tried to get in touch da Silva at the childrens clothing shop that he runs with his wife.
He couldnt, as it was a public holiday. On the following two days (2 & 3 May) he insisted that that da Silva meet him at short notice. A few days later, three days before Murat was made an arguido, Michaela Walczuk was still inviting him to get-togethers at her apartment.
The official line from Murat is that he was talking to da Silva to persuade him to invest in his and Michaelas venture: Romigen. Yet to this day, Romigen appears to be no more than a shell company, just a paper idea for selling property via the internet. It doesnt seem as though the company required any significant cash injection. And if we look at da Silvas statements, if Murat had any intention of buying land to make money out of it, this was never made apparent to da Silva even after several hours of apparently unprofitable conversation - or rather, so it's been said, of long and puzzling silences.
On his first full day back in Praia da Luz (2 May), Murat did manage to get in touch with da Silva at the shop. He took da Silva and his two sons to a café bar for the first round of talking.
We know that Murat rang his lawyer no less than four times that day. In addition, in da Silvas first statement to the PJ, he said that: They did some talking in Mrs Murats VW Transporter. He says rather vaguely that the discussion was to develop some details of the intended business.
The following day (3 May), Murat, Michaela, Jorge da Silva and his sons met again for a long session on 3 May, at the Palmares Golf Club. It is hard to understand from Jorge da Silvas account what all these meetings were really about.
What was the true content of these discussions being concealed? So what could they have been about?
We know that Murat came back to Portugal in apparent haste on 1 May.
His own account says that he booked his ticket on that very day. He seems to have
booked his flight ticket at between midnight and 2.00am. His sister Samantha took him to the airport to catch the 7.00am flight. Murat must have been up and about at not long after 4.00am that morning to get up, travel by car to the airport and check in etc.
There seems to be, without doubt, a significant degree of urgency about Murats movements on 1 May. In his statement he said that he met only his mother (who fetched him from Faro airport) and Michaela that day, but since then weve learnt that he called at Jorge da Silvas shop. Why did da Silva have these long discussions with Murat? Was it really just about Romigen?
Was his sudden early morning flight from Exeter to Praia da Luz just in order to get Romigen moving, or to finalise his divorce as he claimed on another occasion? Did he really need to meet urgently with a top local lawyer for that reason? Two years later, Romigen appears to be still only a shell company, or at most a front for something else.
So we pose this question:
Did something significant happen on Monday 30 April which required him to jet out to Portugal immediately and confer with a number of powerful and well-connected people in Praia da Luz?"
My comment: What happened on or before Monday 30 April? Was Maddie already dead and they needed Murat's help on May 3 to be the willing patsy abductor for Tanner's sighting and to act as a translator for the statements for them?
What do you think?
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