According to Gonçalo, Jane identified Murat during the undercover operation as the man she had seen carrying a child that night by the way he walked. The next day Murat was designated an arguido but subsequently exempted from suspicion following extensive investigation of his background and movements which included undercover surveillance and phone tapping.
So in a nutshell, whatever Amaral thought of JT in the beginning, I fear credible did not feature in the end.
Mr Amaral didn't seem to get very much right about anything to do with the investigation ... and if Jane Tanner told him Murat was his man ... where is the signed statement in the files to that effect? and wouldn't Murat have been subject to arrest, not just being made an arguido, given the police suspicions which led to that process and eye witness testimony identifying him as the person carrying the child Jane Tanner believed was Madeleine?
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But she admitted: "I simply don't know if I could identify again the man I saw that night.
I've never pointed the finger at Robert Murat because I simply don't know if it was him or not."I would say the man I saw was more local, or Mediterranean looking, rather than British.
He had dark, almost black, long hair and had swarthy skin.
"He was dressed in that sort of smart casual way European people dress."
Miss Tanner, a mother of two, said Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry have told her she shouldn't feel any guilt about what happened.
Though some details of Miss Tanner's interview emerged at the weekend, it was broadcast in full on BBC1's Panorama programme last night.
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