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roisinWE SAW MURAT AT MADDY FLATDaily Mirror
BY PAUL BYRNE and WILL PAYNE
29 December 2007
NEW WITNESS SENSATION
TWO more witnesses have cast doubt on the alibi of Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat.
Sisters Annie Wiltshire and Jayne Jensen are certain they saw him near the family's holiday flat in Praia da Luz minutes after Kate McCann raised the alarm.
EIGHT people now contradict his claim that he was at home all night when Madeleine vanished.
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Daily MirrorSisters saw Murat at McCann flatBy Paul Byrne and Will Payne 29/12/2007
Robert Murat (DM)
Sisters Jayne Jensen and Annie Wiltshire say they are 100 per cent sure they saw Robert Murat nearby minutes after Madeleine McCann vanished.
A friend said last night: "Jayne and Annie know what they saw and that is that."
Annie, 58, and Jayne, 54, holidayed at the same resort complex and got to know Kate and Gerry McCann and their three children.
They say they saw Murat, 34 - the first person made an official suspect over four-year-old Madeleine's disappearance - smoking near the entrance 30 minutes after Kate McCann reported her daughter missing.
They told Leicestershire police about it when they returned home to Ayelsford in Kent.
And they recently contacted Metodo 3, the private detective agency hired by the McCanns to find Madeleine.
The day after she vanished they told police about two suspicious men they had seen in a ground floor apartment overlooking the tapas bar at the complex in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
The McCanns were dining with friends at the bar when Madeleine went missing.
A source close to the investigation said: "An officer went with them to the apartment to check it. Murat appeared and acted as an interpreter. Annie assumed he was working for police."
That night Murat joined them for a drink outside a friend's apartment.
The source said: "He was passing and enquired if everyone was OK.
"They all thought his behaviour a bit odd. He was wearing a navy blue T-shirt and jeans. He was very sweaty and said, 'I must shower and change, I've been in these all day'.
"They felt that was strange because he had been in a striped shirt and trousers earlier.
"It was then that both the friend and Jayne Jensen remembered seeing him the night before at the scene.
"Jayne remembers seeing him outside the entrance, smoking cigarettes, between 10.30pm and 11pm.
"So every time they see him claiming he was not there on the night, they find it ridiculous."
British expat Murat was made an official suspect in the case almost immediately.
But he has always maintained he was at home with mum Jenny, 71, all night. She has backed his alibi.
The sisters refused to comment last night. But Jayne's son Joe said: "They had an exhaustive interview with the British police and stand by that statement."
The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell also refused to comment.
Six people have claimed they saw Robert Murat in the vicinity.
The McCanns' friends Fiona Payne, Rachael Oldfield and Russell O'Brien say they saw him.
Charlotte Pennington, 20, of Leatherhead, Surrey, says he was hanging around reception - but when she confronted him next day as he translated her statement to police he denied it.
Two tourists told Metodo 3 they saw Murat walking outside the McCanns' flat.
