A MUM whose son was cleared as a suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance welcomed the new police search.
ULTIMATUM: The mother of ex-suspect Robert Murat is confident that Police would return empty-handed if they took her up on her offer of digging in the family's back garden [EPA / MARK KEHOE ]
Jenny Murat told British detectives: “Come and dig up my garden if you think it will help your search.”
Her son Robert Murat, 40, has been probed then eliminated as an official suspect – or arguido – by Portuguese police.
“They won’t find a thing but if they need to do it as part of their investigation they’re welcome”
Jenny Murat
She added: “They won’t find a thing but if they need to do it as part of their investigation they’re welcome.
“That poor girl’s parents need some answers after seven years.”
British ex-pat Jenny, 78, lives just 100 yards away from the holiday flat in Portugal’s Praia da Luz where Maddie vanished. She said Scotland Yard had not been in contact yet.
She was speaking as British and Portuguese police prepare to dig up parts of the resort.
She added: “I’ve had it all before when my son Robert was living here and now I’m thinking: ‘Not again.’
“But if it helps police rule out a certain scenario, let it be. We’ve got nothing to hide.”
She added: “I’ve been away in England for a while but I’m home now and my garden’s overgrown and full of weeds.”
She said police had originally searched her home and garden in July 2007, just two months after the then three-year-old vanished as her parents dined nearby. She said: “I remember it only too well.
“There were six policemen with sniffer dogs all over the place.”
She insists the new dig will anger locals adding: “They feel it could ruin our tourism industry.”
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