Murat: I have been made a scapegoat
The first man to be classed as a suspect in the investigation into the abduction of Madeleine McCann said on Tuesday night he had been made a "scapegoat".
Robert Murat also said that he would only survive the ordeal if Madeleine's abductor was caught to clear his name.
Portuguese police said on Tuesday that they did not have enough evidence to formally arrest or charge their suspect.
Mr Murat was questioned late on Monday night while his house, just yards from where the four-year-old was snatched from her bed, was searched by forensic experts.
Speaking off camera to Sky News he said: "This has ruined my life and has made things very difficult for my family here and in Britain."
He went on: "The only way I will survive this is if they catch Madeleine's abductor."
And he insisted: "I have been made a scapegoat for something I did not do."
Mr Murat's mother's villa, at the end of the road which leads to the flat where the McCanns were staying when the youngster was snatched, was one of five properties in the area of Praia Da Luz which was searched on Monday.
Mr Murat, who had been working as a translator helping the McCanns, was one of three people questioned. Two others, a German woman and a Portuguese man, were interviewed as witnesses and released.
Mr Murat was also released, but police revealed that - for the first time in this investigation - they were treating one of the three as an "arguido", a suspect.
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