Article: Murat wins pounds 600,000 for Madeleine libels.(News)

Byline: Jan Colley and Cathy Gordon

MADELEINE MCCANN suspect Robert Murat and two Algarve associates have 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 Eadyheard at London's High Court.

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

Their ...

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