That swine Brian Kennedy*!?!**!!*?!

Has it ever been ascertained, precisely how long Kennedy had known some of the Tapas 9, prior to making his extraordinarily benevolent and grandiose pledges?

if this is an ongoing case why have the Police allowed BK to meet up with Murat and others involved in the case?

Cherry wrote:if this is an ongoing case why have the Police allowed BK to meet up with Murat and others involved in the case?

Why are there no prosecutions pending? Interfering with witnesses is one thing, but to go into a foreign country where judicial secrecy is paramount, is really quite another thing altogether.

From Li's translation of Jornal de Noticias today, viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11925:

Quote:
McCanns after Murat

The McCanns look for answers in Robert Murat, they are convinced of his involvement in the disappearance of their daughter. The multimillionaire that supports the expenses with lawyers and the private detectives of the Spanish agency "Método 3" went on purpose to Algarve to know the British.

Brian Kennedy offered to help him, although he was unable to explain how. Why? Why does he believe that Robert or his mother Jennifer might have seen someone on the night of 3rd of May in the area of the Ocean Club. He was prepared to pay to the best technicians to draw a photofit of a possible suspect. Saying one thing and then saying another he ended to say that Kate and Gerry believe that he is innocent and they never came publicly to accuse him but he insisted that Murat might remember some important detail to help them find Madeleine.

The JN knows that Murat did not accept the help of the multimillionaire. On the contrary he was upset with the questions that were made and with the insistence of the multimillionaire that wanted him to remember the night of the disappearance, when Murat always said that he spent the night in his mother's house, Jennifer, in Praia da Luz.

The meeting - a dinner that Brian Kennedy asked to be discreet and far away from the eyes of the press - took place in the end of last year at a house of Murat's relatives in Burgau (Vila do Bispo). At the dinner were present Murat and Kennedy, the respective lawyers, Jennifer Murat and the aunt and uncle of Murat.

After dinner was Brian Kennedy that finished the conversation. He could not explain why three friends of the couple, belonging to the group "Tapas 7" came publicly saying that they saw Robert Murat in the area of the Ocean Club in the night of 3 of May and he (Kennedy) ended to enter in contradiction.

Francisco Pagarete does not confirm this meeting but the JN knows that the PJ is aware and that they monitored the steps of Kennedy and the detectives of Método 3 very closely. According to the lawyer one year after the disappearance of Maddie, Murat "still does not understand how his name was involved in the case". "Everything is very strange" says the lawyer regretting that " a person was involved in this story without having nothing to do with it".
http://web.archive.org/web/20080718170222/http://jn.sapo.pt/2008/05/03/primeiro_plano/mc_cann_atras_murat.html

I am staggered by this news. It is hugely significant in understanding the degree to which those who are supporting the McCanns would go in seeking to pervert the course of justice.

If I understand the article correctly, Kennedy met with Murat to try to persuade him to come up with an abductor sighting, plying him with promises of engaging top forensic “artists” to help him. Kennedy additionally plied Murat with claims that he could not understand why Murat had been fingered by the Tapas crew. The meeting came to nothing as a result of Murat’s refusal to play along.

So what is going on? Remember that the number one priority of Team McCann is to maintain the pretence of an abduction, to which end ever more fantastic stories were being invented at this time. A Murat sighting would have given them one more “Muratman” to photofit and send out to the world’s press, accompanied by an anguished press conference asking why the PJ were not energetically following up this crucial lead.

But is not Murat an Arguido, and could not his sighting be considered as a lame attempt to deflect attention from himself? Not if – as the story makes clear – Kennedy was hinting that the Tapas accusation was “mistaken”. In other words, it seems Kennedy was offering Murat a deal: Team McCann would lift the cloud of suspicion hanging over him, indeed would come to his defence. Possibly the resources of the McCann lawyers, including Carter-Ruck themselves, would be placed at his disposal. The price for that was for Murat to come up with a sighting.

But just as Kennedy was offering Murat a carrot, so in the background he was wielding a big stick. Remember that Kennedy is also largely funding Metodo 3, the masters of disinformation, and also Clarence Mitchell, responsible for feeding Metodo 3 dirt to the British media. At this time, Murat was the target of vicious smears generated by the above-mentioned parties: Laffin Assasin has pointed out just one example of the media blitz against Murat at Christmas time.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080718170222/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article628332.ece

How interesting that this article - surely generated by the House of Clarrie - should be dated 28th December 2007, and by-lined from Praia da Luz. According to JN, the meeting between Murat and Kennedy "took place in the end of last year at a house of Murat's relatives", in Burgau, not a million miles from Praia da Luz. Either the article appeared in order to soften up Murat before the visit of the "helpful" Mr Kennedy, or was the vengeful reaction of Team McCann to Murat refusing to play ball. In either case, showing Murat what they are capable of doing to their enemies.

Had Murat caved in, facing such media pressure on the one hand and then miraculously offered salvation on the other, how would this have then been played to the public? I can write the script now for the appropriate Clarrie press conference:

“Kate and Gerry have reacted with great interest to the latest witness to come forward with a new sighting of the abductor who took Madeleine. Robert Murat has provided us with a description of man he saw from the window of his mother’s kitchen on the night of the tragic events. This photofit picture, drawn by a renowned FBI artist, shows a dark, swarthy individual carrying a child and closely resembles the description given by other witnesses. We appeal to the Portuguese police to put all the resources at their disposal to find this man, and if necessary, eliminate him from their enquiries. We are concerned that this has not been happening with sufficient vigour.

“Gerry and Kate also wish to make it clear that they do not believe that Robert Murat has anything to do with the disappearance of their daughter. I am able to tell you now, that they have been able to meet Robert at a private location in the UK [Clarrie does not mention, flown to the UK on Kennedy’s private jet], and are satisfied of his innocence. They believe that he – like themselves – are the victims of a mistaken investigation by the Portuguese police, and are appealing to the PJ to lift Robert’s Arguido status. They are anxious that he does not fall victim to the same terrible miscarriage of justice that they are facing, and that the attention of the Portuguese police be directed where it should be - to the search for Madeleine. As of today, Gerry, Kate and Robert stand shoulder-to-shoulder in demanding only one thing: that the Portuguese police redouble their efforts to find this missing child”.

Presto! A new predator sighting with which to browbeat the PJ. Murat on their side, a solid front of arguidos against the bumbling Portuguese police. A credible witness statement from a man hitherto a favourite of the much-hated internet fora. And unsaid successes too: Murat now beholden to Kennedy and the McCanns, and able to be dropped back in it if he stepped out of line.

Luckily it didn’t turn out that way, but it could have, had Kennedy had his way.

http://forum2.aimoo.com/MadeleineMcCann/The-Very-Best-of-the-Old-3A-s/Kennedy-s-Approach-to-Murat-merged-topic-1-759897.html

- according to reports in the Daily Express, Gerry called for people to cease the speculation about Murat's possible guilt on the same day it was announced that Murat had been in contact with Max Clifford.

- If the part of the article which states Pj were aware and also monitering metodo3 activities is true it would explain why m3 are suddenly less active

Murat imo was probably known to Gerry some time before may/07. Most probably through JT. Murat was promised something (money I'd think) in return for some help. But then they played him false and fingered him as the chief suspect.
No wonder he wouldn't help any further, he had his own reasons to cooperate and he did. Possibly facilitated the removal of the body and hiding it. Once the PJ got onto him he was compromised with whatever dirty little secrets he might have of his own, such as the encrypted material on his computer.
BK has a private plane as well? Hopefully better than the one Sir Philip Green kindly lent to the McCanns. Kate thought it was rather below standard.
Private planes must be incredibly useful.
The interference with witnesses by Kate (who immediately behaved as if she was not so much celebrity as royalty) and Gerry - who visited Mrs. Fenn and certainly the ubiquitous BK, is nothing short of scandalous.