Article: Newspapers' six-figure payout over Madeleine case libel.(News)

Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat and two Algarve associates yesterday accepted at least pounds 800,000 libel damages over claims connecting them with her abduction.

The "seriously defamatory" allegations in nearly 100 articles were entirely untrue and caused "immense distress and damage", Mr Justice Eady heard at London's High Court.

Mr Murat, his friend MichaelaWalczuch and IT consultant Sergey Malinka had each sued Associated Newspapers, Express Newspapers, MGN Limited and News Group Newspapers.

Their solicitor, Louis Charalambous, said that ...

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