A man named by police as a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann won £600,000 ($1.2 million) in libel damages Thursday from nearly a dozen British newspapers, his lawyer said.
Robert Murat's lawyer, Louis Charalambous, said the papers had agreed to pay Murat and to issue an apology. The settlement was formalized with a joint statement at the High Court in London on Thursday.
Murat sued The Sun, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Mail and other daily and Sunday newspapers over stories -- often lurid and based on anonymous sources -- claiming he was involved in Madeleine's disappearance. 
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