What/where should have been investigated,but was not?

[mercury]

Yes Brietta I agreee, it was a mistake to give the parents preferential treatment, British police have said as much, the fact that they DID despite normal police suspicions pays testament to....answers on a postcard

[mercury]

So Amaral was lying when he wrote in his book that he already began to suspect the parents of something on the morning of the 4th May was he?

No,he wasn't, OBVIOUSLY, but that bears no relation to much, the place and investigation was cockroach crawling early on with myriads of British "involvement"

[ShiningInLuz]

So Amaral was lying when he wrote in his book that he already began to suspect the parents of something on the morning of the 4th May was he?

I am not going to read the entire book again to see if I can prove or disprove this.  Life is short.

Gerry McCann's interview started at 11:15 AM on 4 May.  Kate's started at 14:20.

How did Amaral get a head start?

[Carana]

Yes Brietta I agreee, it was a mistake to give the parents preferential treatment, British police have said as much, the fact that they DID despite normal police suspicions pays testament to....answers on a postcard

Preferntial treatment compared to whom?

[Carana]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and any major investigation in any country will miss things, go off on the wrong track, lack resources when most needed... but a quick shortlist in no particular order:

- Crawl spaces
- A more thorough analysis of hone records
- Mrs Fenn (a more thorough and earlier interview and cross-checked with her friend; with a sound reconstruction)
- The alibis of known / suspected sex offenders
- Sexual assaults
- A more thorough forensic sweep of 5A
- A forensic examination of rubbish containers (a brief search of some and of the local dump was done but quite some time later)
- The 5J mystery
- Evening crèche records
- Existing CCTV in PdL (the Paraiso one was checked).
- An early appeal to any male carrying a child that evening in the area / anyone who had seen one

[G-Unit]

Preferntial treatment compared to whom?

Robert Murat? How much assistance did he get?

[misty]

Robert Murat? How much assistance did he get?

He wasn't the victim of a crime, only a suspect.
BTW - who funded his libel case against the UK newspapers? Max Clifford gave him a lot of help for free after RM pleaded poverty - and then RM employed a top UK solicitor in Louis Charalambous.

[Carana]

Robert Murat? How much assistance did he get?

What type of assistance and from whom?

[jassi]

Consular, perhaps. He is a UK citizen.  Maybe he didn't ask for any, of course.

[Brietta]

Consular, perhaps. He is a UK citizen.  Maybe he didn't ask for any, of course.

            I believe Robert Murat holds dual nationality and was domicile in Portugal.

[G-Unit]

I only have the Daily Mail quoting El Mundo, December 2007;

El Mundo claims a Foreign Office document, dated May 17, justified the order because of "the specific nature of the case" and because British diplomats "were already helping Madeleine McCann's parents."
The paper reported: "An internal document, sent by the Foreign Office of the United Kingdom, orders British diplomats 'to avoid offering support' to Robert Murat, one of the suspects in the Maddie case, unless charges are presented against him."


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[Mr Gray]

I only have the Daily Mail quoting El Mundo, December 2007;

El Mundo claims a Foreign Office document, dated May 17, justified the order because of "the specific nature of the case" and because British diplomats "were already helping Madeleine McCann's parents."
The paper reported: "An internal document, sent by the Foreign Office of the United Kingdom, orders British diplomats 'to avoid offering support' to Robert Murat, one of the suspects in the Maddie case, unless charges are presented against him."


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As I understand if he holds dual nationality he would not be entitled to any consular assistance

[Alfred R Jones]

I am not going to read the entire book again to see if I can prove or disprove this.  Life is short.

Gerry McCann's interview started at 11:15 AM on 4 May.  Kate's started at 14:20.

How did Amaral get a head start?

You tell me. He writes in his book that he was already suspicious on the morning of the 4th - either he is lying or he was relying on gut-feel and what he'd been told by other police officers.

[G-Unit]

As I understand if he holds dual nationality he would not be entitled to any consular assistance

It's not hard to find out;

In this function appeared a British citizen, Robert J.Q.E. Murat (duly identified in the files from previous work), official resident of Casa Liliana, Rua Ramalhete, Praia da Luz, Lagos.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/ROBERT-MURAT.htm

[Mr Gray]

It's not hard to find out;

In this function appeared a British citizen, Robert J.Q.E. Murat (duly identified in the files from previous work), official resident of Casa Liliana, Rua Ramalhete, Praia da Luz, Lagos.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/ROBERT-MURAT.htm

According to newspaper Correio da Manhã, he arrived in Portugal two weeks ago and began surveying the home of Robert Murat, who holds dual British and Portuguese citizenship and lives