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Witness statement of
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05-Processo, Volume V, pages
1298 -1304 (7 pages)
Witness Statement
Date 2007/05/15 Time: 17H50m
Place: Praia da Luz
Officer: Santos Martins,
Inspector.
Name: JENNIFER ANNE MURAT
She confirms being the mother of
arguido Robert Murat, and is
willing to make this statement.
--- She comes to the case as a
witness.
--- The deponent is the mother
of the arguido ROBERT MURAT and
therefore was advised of the
conditions of Art 134 and
following of the CPP, she wished
to make a statement to better
clarify the facts and thus
contribute to the discovery of
the truth.
--- The deponent is English,
having settled in Portugal for
40 years and therefore
understands, reads and speaks
Portuguese without difficulty.
--- Concerning the events, the
deponent has to clarify that she
knew [found out] about the
disappearance of the English
child called Madeleine on 4 May,
Friday, that is the day
following it happened.
--- She says further that it was
her daughter, Samantha, residing
in England in the city of
Exeter, who telephoned her to
give her the news because by the
morning our news was already
running in the press of that
country.
--- She states that her
daughter's phone number is
00441932****38 and her mobile is
0044781*****42.
--- Relative to her life in
Portugal, she states that she
came to live in this country in
1968/69.
--- She had contact with the
Algarve in 1959/60 by virtue of
her late husband having bought a
small house in Burgau.
--- It was only later they
decided to settle in Portugal
the husband, John Murat, having
started a property business.
--- Thus they maintained
themselves during the time until
25 April 1974 which began a big
crisis in the property business
obliging her to start work in
the Lagos Hospital, as a nurse
(her original profession).
--- She is mother to three
children, Richard (28), Samantha
(36) and Robert born on 20 November
1973.
--- Robert, the same as the other
children, was born in England, in
London.
--- About one month old he came to
Portugal to live with the family in
Atalaia in Lagos.
--- The son Robert started his
schooling in the Barlavento School
(English school) where he did his
primary education. Later he was
enrolled in the International School
where he continued to study for a
further two years. Later on he
enrolled in a public school in Lagos
where he studied until he was 16
years old at which time he travelled
to England to be with his maternal
grandmother.
--- There he started to work in a
firm that sold double-glazing. He
worked also as a car salesman for
'Nissan'.
--- He was in England for more than
10 years, always in Norfolk.
Furthermore it was in that city that
he met the woman whom he later
married.
--- In those 10 years he was in
England, Robert came to Portugal
several times, perhaps three time a
year, roughly.
--- Asked, she says the is not
certain on which date Robert was
married but she knows that his wife
in English and 10/12 years older
than him and she knows only that her
name is Dawn.
--- From this marriage came a
daughter, Sophie or Sofia (she is
not certain), who was currently four
years old and who was born in
October 2002, living with her mother
in Norfolk [full address given].
--- Robert's wife already had a son,
David, from a first marriage who was
over 20 years old and who also went
by the name Murat while his mother
and Robert were married.
--- The marriage ended in 2003
though the deponent does not know if
the divorce was ever finalised. She
knows, moreover, that her son Robert
maintains a good relationship with
his ex-wife, with his daughter and
with David.
--- [When] Robert travels to England
he always stays in a house inherited
by the deponent, which is being
'renovated' and which is in Sidmouth,
Devon. Robert is dealing with that
situation and she knows that when he
is there his daughter will be found
with him.
--- It is a semi-detached house,
vacant since 2003 ((the date of
death of the maternal grandmother),
and is situated exactly at [address
given], Sidmouth, Devon
--- Returning to the family history
in Portugal, more or less in 1981,
the witness and rest of the family,
including the three children, left
Atalaia and went to Almadena, more
specifically to a property called
Eiras Velhas. It was a property of
just over two hectares, which
included several houses in ruins.
These were rebuilt and the property
served as the family address until
2002, when it was sold.
--- During the almost 20 years that
the witness lived in that property
in Almadena, they used the house for
rural tourism which consisted of
renting rooms to tourists. She notes
that that business was always legal,
having a license for it.
--- Robert lived with the family for
several years in that house and
later, after opting to go to
England, he was always accommodated
in the family home when when he
returned to Portugal.
--- In 2001, the witness sold the
property in Almadena and bought the
house where she lives now. It is 'Casa
Liliana'.
--- Initially she came to live in
"Casa Liliana" accompanied by a
friend (they had a companion
relationship after being widowed),
who currently resides in France.
Later came the mother of the witness
who lived there until her death in
2003 at the age of 93 years.
--- The companion of the witness,
currently in France, never had a
close relationship with Robert nor
with the witness' other children.
--- Still in 2003, Robert came to
Portugal with his wife DAWN and
daughter, who was a baby, and stayed
for about two months. At that time
they had the idea to settle here.
However, his wife did not adapt
because of the language and the fact
of being away from family and
friends. So, she finally left Robert
and returned to England with her
daughter.
--- Robert began to work in the
business of real estate having been
initially with "Remax" then with
"Portuguese Homes," having returned
later to "Remax". The failure of the
employers to pay, or the difficulty
in receiving his rightful
commissions, led Robert to start a
project, a property business through
the Internet, teaming up with a
friend called M1CHAELA.
--- The witness knows Michaela,
knows she has a daughter who she
knows only as "Titinha", who is
about 8 or 9 years old, is a
Portuguese national, and lives in
Lagos. She knows that Michaela is
still married to an individual named
Louis and she is a Jehovah's
Witness.
--- Asked, the deponent refers that
she does not know if her son Robert
maintains a relationship with
Michaela it being certain that she
never slept in her house.
--- Asked, she clarifies that she
never knew of any loving
relationship of her son beyond that
with his wife Dawn. She asked her
son never to bring anyone hone to
'sleep'. That is not to say that her
son had had no relationships.
--- About the son Robert, she knows
only of a health problem that
resulted in the blindness in the
right eye.
--- Maybe when he was about 9 years
old, the witness noticed that he had
a small disorder in his vision
having taken him to several
specialists. He was diagnosed with
dislocation of a retina, of
traumatic origin, that was not
corrected after being operated on.
It left the right eye unusable.
--- She also knows that he has an
hereditary thyroid problem.
--- She does not know of any other
physical, psychiatric or dysfunction
problem.
--- Asked, the deponent says that
she has the idea that her son had
been hospitalised only once,
specifically for the problem with
his sight.
--- That said, when he was about ten
years old, Robert had a small injury
to his knee, of unknown origin,
having led to surgery in the United
Kingdom.
--- She does not know if that
physical problem led to Robert being
admitted.
--- The question asked, she says
that to her knowledge, Robert takes
only one medication on a regular
(daily) basis, a drug called 'Letter" or
"Levothyroxine", specifically for
the thyroid problem which, as
already said, is hereditary.
--- Relative to the facts concerning
the disappearance of the English
child, the deponent states that
because she has been in Portugal for
a long time and knows many people,
she decided to mount a "post" to
collect information in order to be
able to determine things about the
subject and thus could channel them
to the competent authorities. For
three days (Friday 11/05, Saturday
12/05 and Sunday 13/05) she was at
the "post" mounted near to the
cinema having obtained some
information that she gave to Robert
who, in turn, gave it to the Police.
--- Her idea was to try to sensitise
people not to feel intimidated by
the presence of police and lead them
to give all the information that
they knew.
--- Still relating to the facts
which occurred on the evening of 03
May 2007, the deponent states that
on that night she was at home with
her son Robert. They followed their
normal routine: About 19h50 she went
to the "Batista" supermarket to buy
bread. Then she went back to the
house where she arrived more or less
at the same time as Robert. Later
they sat in the kitchen where they
were talking for some time, having
also eaten. She recalls that they
were talking until close to midnight
about Robert's project, related to
the property and called 'Romigen.Com".
Finally they went to their bedrooms
to pass the night.
--- Asked, she explains that while
they were talking in the kitchen,
she is not able to say when, she
recalls having heard a siren ringing
at least once. Although not usual,
she also did not "connect" because
it could possibly have been an
ambulance. (She recalls that
sometimes, when the wind blows in a
certain direction, it is possible to
hear in the house sirens of police
cars or ambulances that pass on the
EN125).
--- Questioned, she says that during
that night she also heard no noise
or strange movements of people and
also no one knocked on the door to
ask or to request help to find the
missing girl.
---Asked, she assures that her son
Robert did not leave the house that
night. Furthermore, she says that he
usually gets up first. On that day
she does not remember if that was
what happened.
--- Asked, she explains that Robert
travelled to England on March 20 and
returned on May 01, 2007, at 09h40,
she herself having gone to the
airport in Faro to collect him.
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Fax re: questions to
ask Jennifer Murat
1364 Confirmation
above fax sent |
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Fax
re: questions to ask Jennifer Murat
Urgent fax to the Head of the ADSE dated
16 July 2007 [Actual date was 16 May].
This is a request to something similar
to the equivalent of the UK Civil
Servants' medical benefits organisation
asking for details about any services
rendered or medication prescribed to
J.A.Murat and any of her dependents.
Answers to any of the questions should
be faxed to DIC Portimao as soon as
possible. |
1434 Letter to Dr.
Amaral re: Jenny Murat
1533 to 1535 Vodafone
letter to PJ re: Jennifer Murats SIM with list of calls
made/received |
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THANKS TO INES |
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Processos Vol
VI Pages 1533-1535
Vodaphone
Statement
In response to your letter 1839 dated 22-05-2007, Vodaphone
Portugal informs you that Sim number 99020000164 is registered
with our company under mobile number 919188441, in the name of
Jennifer Murat with the address Casa Liliana, Luz, Lagos, this
number having been deactivated on 26-04-2007 by Port Out for TMN.
It was still possible to access the list of telephone contacts
in the Sim card, which is attached.
In the name of our client Jennifer Murat we have the service
number 917462308 registered in our database, this number has
been active from 13-04-1999 to the current date.
But we inform you that Sim number 829921302138 of Telecel was
part of our database with mobile number 917752871, but without
client identification and was deactivated by our services for
lack of loading on 25-10-2003.
Signed
Vodaphone Portugal
Date: 22nd May 2007 |
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