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Suspect Quiz Delay After New Evidence

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Original Source: SKY: 19 JULY 2007

2:35pm UK, Thursday 19 July 2007

Headline edited to

Murat Quiz Delay After New Evidence

 
Police may delay further questioning of the main suspect in the hunt for Madeleine McCann after new evidence emerged.

Officers were due to call in expat Robert Murat, 33, to police headquarters in Portimao this week.

But police sources told Sky News Online they may now have to push this back following new information from locals, who were quizzed by officers ealier this week.

Police are now compiling the new information before they re-interview Mr Murat, who lives near the apartment where Madeleine vanished in Praia da Luz on May 3.

"In view of the outcome of the secondary interviews, there may not be time to do it this week. It may now be next week," a police source said.

Portuguese newspaper reports say some of the witnesses interviewed this week spotted a man matching Mr Murat's description outside the flat where Madeleine disappeared.

It follows claims from McCann family friends who say they saw the suspect near the apartment shortly after the four-year-old was taken.

The three friends - Fiona Payne, Russell O'Brien and Rachael Oldfield - were allowed to grill the British expatriate in a five-hour session at a police station.

Some of the neighbours had been interviewed in the first week of her disappearance, and were being requestioned by officers.

Others had not been around at the time, and were giving evidence for the first time.

Mr Murat - who is considered an "arguido", the Portuguese police term for a suspect - claims he had a quiet night on May 3 and had not left his mother's house.

A police source said: "We will interview him as many times as necessary."

Police insiders have said the investigation is at a "critical" stage but have not elaborated on what that means.

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