Former Ocean Club employee killed in tractor accident in 2009 is the latest suspect.

[jassi]

Not likely is it. I think the papers need a new 'suspect' now.

I'm sure there'll be a new one along in a day or two.
No doubt the Sunday Times will also have a follow-up to last week's revelations.

[imustpointout]

The Times is currently reporting this story.

[imustpointout]

An aggressive and conflictual personality and suspicious behaviour towards children led the PJ investigation to the Cabo Verde immigrant, indicated in the abduction and murder of Maddie.

The PJ inspectors, who studied the case and led to it's recent reopening, elaborated a profile of the suspect - who died in 2009 at 40 - and concluded that the traits presented give more strength to the possibility that he was the author of the crime. The PJ, also, had done the same in 2007, when Robert Murat had been made "arguido". The profile had been made with the help of two British criminologists and indicated that the luso-british could be responsible for the disappearance.

As for the Cabo Verde immigrant now being investigated, he had a past marked some violent episodes. He was also involved in a labour conflict, having left in a dispute. This is what happened in the Ocean Clube resort, in Praia da Luz, in Lagos, where the suspect worked. He lost his job a short time before the girl disappeared, 3 May 2007.

The PJ has, during the last few days, attempted to reconstruct the last steps of the suspect and to try to find the places where he could have hidden Madeleine's body, who was 4 at the time of the disappearance. The suspect's family has not collaborated with the PJ, which has hindered the investigation. The wife has not offered any leads as to the last years of the life of her companion. The suspect had a record for theft. In 1996, he received a pardon from the President Jorge Sampaio and was not thrown out of the country.

The Family admits suing for defamation

The family of the man who is suspected of abducting Maddie, has already admitted suing the state, for offense against a deceased person. The wife, who refused to speak to CM, is supposed to have already contacted a lawyer in order to go ahead with a complaint for offenses to the memory of a deceased person. This complaint could come up against the fact that the PJ is only studying one line of investigation, which had already happened in the past. Robert Murat, for example, who had been made arguido, was never compensated for the damages suffered because of the investigation. It would be difficult in the Portuguese judicial system for the widow to prove this, although the closest relatives speak of an enormous "shame" felt by the widow and son.

CdM today - apologies for quality of translation

[colombosstogey]

I read he left OC a YEAR before the child went missing....

[imustpointout]

why would the family not co-operate with the investigation - surely that would be the quickest way to prove this is rubbish (or not)?

[imustpointout]

and still - where is CdM getting it's information from?

[VIXTE]

I read he left OC a YEAR before the child went missing....

Different sources say different. In the latest CdM the expression is: 'not long before Madeleine went missing', there is one recent paper which said ' he was sacked during the McCanns stay'

I wonder if there were two different guys who were sacked?

[AnneGuedes]

Where does the job vacancy for evil abductor comes from ?

[AnneGuedes]

why would the family not co-operate with the investigation - surely that would be the quickest way to prove this is rubbish (or not)?

Ask the McCanns perhaps.

[imustpointout]

Where does the job vacancy for evil abductor comes from ?

stephen brought it to this forum from amazon forum

[imustpointout]

Ask the McCanns perhaps.

so are this family arguidos?

[AnneGuedes]

Family can be arguided if suspected of complicity, even if the author is dead.

[Mr Moderator]

Madeleine McCann suspect was a known criminal.

THE sacked holiday complex worker suspected of kidnapping Madeleine McCann had a criminal record.

He was named last night as immigrant Euclides Monteiro. But his family denied that he abducted Madeleine in a revenge against holiday resort bosses who sacked him.

Monteiro, who was killed in a tractor accident four years ago aged 40, is said to be the new prime suspect for local police.

He was fired from his job in a restaurant at the Ocean Club complex in Praia da Luz, Portugal, a year before Madeleine vanished.

Mobile phone checks place him near the McCanns’ apartment when she disappeared on May 3, 2007, aged three.

Yesterday it emerged Monteiro, from Cape Verde off the west African coast, was convicted of theft in 1996.

He was told he was being deported but received a presidential pardon. His shocked relatives said the claims had left them “devastated”.

Monteiro’s Portuguese-born widow remained in hiding yesterday and was too upset to speak.

But his brother-in-law defended him and insisted Portuguese police had not been in contact.

Speaking outside his country home near Praia da Luz, he said: “I strongly believe that if the police do consider he is a suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, they are looking at the wrong man.

“The idea he did it to get revenge on the Ocean Club makes no sense at all.

“It wasn’t as if what happened there with him losing his job destroyed his life.

“He got work elsewhere soon after. He was working at the time he died. He is not around to defend his reputation so others have to do it for him.

“My sister does not want to speak about it. She has a young child she is trying to protect. The police will do what they have to do but we don’t want to say any more about it.’’

Madeleine’s doctor parents Kate and Gerry, both 45, from Rothley, Leics, have been made aware of the theory but their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said they “will not comment on speculation”.

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/348425/Madeleine-McCann-suspect-was-a-known-criminal

[imustpointout]

Family can be arguided if suspected of complicity, even if the author is dead.

I wondered why you said to ask the  McCann's - do they know this family?

[Mr Moderator]

Portugal's daily Correio da Manha refusing to name the Cape Verde immigrant suspected of involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine.

They are rightly being very cautious at this stage.