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524  Letter from Inspector Figueiredo regarding possible sighting in Lisbon airport

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PJ cover letter regarding service information

Date: 2007 ? 05 ? 05

Service Information

To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

From: Inspector Figueiredo


Subject: Missing Child Possibly Sighted at Lisbon Airport.


I am bringing to your attention the fact that today at 21.20 a phone call was received by this police force from a woman who identified herself as M***** A***** C***** B**** saying that yesterday morning when she was at Lisbon airport she saw a girl with a woman and she now believes the girl to be the English girl who disappeared from the Algarve.

This information was immediately sent to the Portimao DIC to Inspector Vaz. Am bringing this to your attention in case it is relevant.
Signed.

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Date: 2007 ? 05 ? 05

Service Information

To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

From: Inspector Figueiredo


Subject: Missing Child Possibly Sighted at the Colombo Shopping Centre in Lisbon.


I am bringing to your attention the fact that today at 20.20 a phone call was received by this police force from a woman who identified herself as G****** M****** saying that today at about 17.00 when she was at the Colombo Shopping Centre in Lisbon she saw a three year old blonde girl with a couple, a man who appeared to be a foreigner and a Portuguese woman and she now thinks it could have been the missing English girl from the Algarve.

She adds that she would not claim any reward offered to her.


This information was immediately sent to the Portimao DIC to Inspector Vaz. Am bringing this to your attention in case it is relevant.

Signed.

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Date: 2007 ? 05 ? 05

Service Information

To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

From: Inspector Figueiredo


Subject: Missing Child Sighted in the Linda a Velha Area.


I am bringing to your attention the fact that today at 18.20 a phone call was received by this police force from a man who identified himself as J***** S***** who said that yesterday on 04 ? 05 ? 2007 when he was at Pingo Doce in Linda a Velha he saw a girl inside a shopping trolley in the company of a dark skinned woman and he now thinks this could have been the missing English girl from the Algarve


This information was immediately sent to the Portimao DIC to Inspector Vaz. Am bringing this to your attention in case it is relevant.

Signed.

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Date: 2007 ? 05 ? 05


Service Information


To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

From: Inspector Figueiredo


Subject: Possible Sighting of Missing Girl in Mira flores


I am bringing the fact to your attention that today at 22.10 a phone call was received from this police station from Officer Paolo Calcado from the Miraflores PSP saying that today a girl had been sighted in a vehicle with registration plates XZ-47-06 in the Avenida das Tulipas in Miraflores at about 11.50, he thinks the girl could have been the missing English girl from the Algarve.

This information was immediately sent to Officer Vaz.

Am sending this to you in case it is relevant.

Signed.

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Full number plate search

Date 2007 - 05- 05

Lisbon Automobile Registry

Characteristics of vehicle

Number plate XZ-47-06

Year: 1992

Small passenger car

Make: Volkswagen

Model Polo 86C-P

Fuel: Petrol

Colour: Blue

Identified owner: P*** J*** M******

Vehicle registered on 15-11-2001

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Date: 2007 ? 05 ?06

Service Information

To: The Police Coordinator

From: Joaquim Mendes, Inspector

Subject: PSP Information about a telephone call from England relating to a missing girl

I bring to your attention that at about 09.45 a telephone call was received by this police station from Officer Ferreira from the PSP tourist post in Lisbon relating to the disappearance of the English girl on 03 ? 05 ? 2007.

The PSP officer informed us that he had received a phone call from England from someone speaking English who said that they had information about the suspect of the child?s abduction. The officer added that he had some difficulty in understanding part of the communication, perhaps because of the accent, but that he remembered some facts and a telephone number for subsequent contact and he would like to pass this information onto the investigating officers.

For this purpose, officer Ferreira was given the number of the Portimao DIC and it was suggested that this information should be sent to Lisbon by fax.

The fax was received at 10.15 together with this service information.

Signed.

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Lisbon Public Security Police

Date 06-05-2007

From: Lisbon Tourist Operations Unit


To: PJ Inspector Mendes


Subject: Phone call from England ? possible information about the missing English girl from the Algarve


Dear Sirs,


In accordance with our previous telephone conversation, I am enclosing the information relating to the English woman who phoned this unit, claiming to be in possession of information that could lead to identifying the suspect in the abduction of the girl.

Mrs Ch*********

****
Norwich
UK

Signed

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Date: 2007 ? 05 ? 05

Service Information

To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

From: Inspector Carlos Cunha


Subject: Sighting of missing girl in the Lisbon Expo area


I inform you that today at 13.20 a phone call was received by this police station from the PSP communications unit from Chief Inspector Quaresma.

The officer said that he had received a phone call today via the 112 line, made on mobile number ****** from an individual who claimed his name was C***** C***** aged 17 and who said that yesterday when in the company of his friend R*** S**** aged 15 they saw a girl at the Lisbon Expo site who could be the missing English girl.

This information was immediately passed on to Inspector Vaz.

I am bringing you this information in case it is of relevance.

Signed

740 to 741 Service information regarding van with Spanish license plates

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Service Information

Date: 2007 ? 05 ? 07

To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

From: Inspector Queiros

Subject: Information related to the girl recently abducted from the Algarve


Today at about 20.30 this station was contacted by telephone by a male individual who did not identify himself and informed us of the following: today at about 17.00 at the Miramar beach, near to Senhor da Pedra, Vila Nova da Gaia, where he was resting, he saw a girl very similar to various photos that had been shown in the press relating to a three year old girl who recently disappeared from the Algarve.

At that moment the girl was accompanied by a male individual, but as all his attention was focussed on the girl, he did not pay attention to details, he can only say that the individual was aged about 35/40, of a strong physical appearance, wearing a dark t-shirt and trousers. With regard to the girl, he can only remember that her hair was drawn back into two pony tails at the neck

They left in a Renault car, he cannot remember the model, number plate 75-74-LH. His attention was drawn by the fact that contrary to the law, there was no special child seat in the back of the car.

They left in the direction of the Francelos-Miramar main road.

When the SPO was consulted, it was found that this vehicle was registered in the name of F****** T****** A*****.


No information was found about the individual from the PJ databases.

Signed

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Renault registration details from PJ search.

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Service Information

Date 07-05-2007


To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation


From : Inspector Queiroz


Subject: Information related to the girl recently abducted from the Algarve


Today at about 16.40 a woman appeared at this station who formally identified herself as M***** da C******, a resident of Porto and said the following.


On 3rd May in lower Faro where she was on holiday, at about 11.00, in a garden next to the Caixa Geral de Depositos, she saw a girl who looked very similar to the photos shown on television relating to the English girl who recently disappeared from the Algarve.

At that moment the girl was accompanied by a male individual whom she describes as follows: white, aged about 40, about 1.80 in height, normal physical appearance, light brown hair in a normal cut, light grey eyes, small round face, with a small short nose, she cannot remember any details such as tattoos or earrings. He was wearing a good quality baby blue coloured shirt with long sleeves if she is not mistaken, with vertical yellow stripes, beige coloured trousers and dark brown shoes.
As regards the girl, she says she had round dark grey eyes, light brown hair, with a normal fringe on her forehead and she had ?large circles around her eyes?, it was this detail that later when she heard about the supposed abduction made her associate the facts, she was wearing a reddish/pink t-shirt, smooth and with long sleeves unless she is mistaken, she was wearing white trousers, white shoes with red lines on the round front of the shoes. She was carrying a smooth white cloth in her left hand.

She was walking as if in a hurry, in other words, she did not like she was just out for a walk.

She did not hear them speak.

The girl was not crying but looked tired.

They crossed the garden and went in the direction of the Faro marina, she did not see them further.

Signed

Inspector

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Processos Vol III

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Service Information

Date: 2007 ? 05-09

To: The Director of the Criminal Investigation

From: Davide Gomes, Inspector


Subject: Diligences carried out regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann


I inform you that today I was in charge of clarifying the service information where VN Gaia taxi driver Alberto Almeida have information about having transported an individual with a blonde girl to a determined location in VN Gaia and who presumably travelled in a train from the Algarve on 04-05-2007, the following was established:

The taxi driver in question was contacted by another taxi driver, an older man already retired who had been looking for him from the date of the service until the 09th when he managed to contact him, reminding him about a service trip that he made on 04-05-2007 at about 12.40 in which an individual carrying a blonde girl asked him to take them to Rua Andr?de Castro n? 79, Santa Marinha, Vila Nova da Gaia.

The trip he made was approximately 1.5 km and would have taken about 5 minutes.

With regard to the girl he only remembers that she was blonde and always asleep, he does not remember if she resembles the missing girl or what clothes she was wearing.

With regard to the individual he cannot be exact about his age but he was about 1.70m tall, well built, with a full head of hair, although not long hair, of a good appearance, calm and well disposed. He did not speak much but spoke Portuguese with an accent and seemed to the taxi driver to be English, Irish or maybe French, he did not appear to be from the east.

The individual was carrying two similar bags and two bags with shoulder straps, one containing a wallet and the other a camera, but he is not sure.

He remembers that the individual entered the address mentioned previously as he helped him with his bags, number 79 being a three floor building, the individual entered by the door.

He says he only remembers this episode due to having been reminded by the other former taxi driver, whom he does not know how to contact but will try to do so.

He says that as well as the train that arrived from the Algarve another train arrives with a difference of a few minutes and that the clients he transported could have come from the other train and not from the Algarve.

The CP was contacted so that they inform us about the services from the Algarve to Lisbon.

The telephone numbers were obtained for Dr L*** A*** responsible for the CP in the Algarve (tel *****) and M***** C****** one of the CP directors in Lisbon (****** and *****).

When the driver of the train that left Lagos at about 06.11 on 04-05-2007 was contacted, he said that the only person to descend from the train was a boy, he did not see any girl with the characteristics of the missing child leave the train.

When the Alfa Pendular driver was contacted he said that no girl with the characteristics of Madeleine left the train, he just remembers a foreign man accompanying a girl of the same age as the missing girl, but that the girl in question was coloured. He said that he was worried after hearing the news and paid special attention to the passengers because of this, in addition to searching his memory in relation to that journey.

Consequently, in my opinion, the girl transported by the taxi driver had nothing to do with the situation we are investigating.

Signed

Inspector Gomes

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That is purely an internal administration note. Maria Duarte seems to have been away between May and August (restarting in September - looks like maternity leave from the dates). She was (is) a MoPo employee who interacted with the Tribunals and the Police, managing documents, certified copies, mail, etc.

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Service Information

Date: 09-05-2007 

To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

From: Inspector Pontes 

Subject: Informal Conversation

An informal and individual conversation was held with the following witnesses after having examined all involvement relevant to the current investigation, it was found that the following reports do not imply anything of significance:

-          John Hill, MW Resort General Manager at the OC, born on 04/10/1976, resident in Espiche, who arrived in Portugal for the first time on 4^th March, 2006.

-          Nathan D***** S*****, Waterfront Manager (recreation company ? boat trips, of which he is the manager) at the OC, resident in Luz, having arrived in Portugal on 15^th March 2007, immediately entering into the functions described above. This is his first time in Portugal whether for leisure or work purposes.

-          Lauren D****** ?  from West Sussex, Sailing instructor at the OC, arrived in Portugal on 21st March 2007 for the first time.

-          Sebastian G*******, from Derbyshire, Sports Instructor at  the OC, arrived in Portugal for the first time on 21^st March 2007.

-          Alice S*******, from Cambridge, Sailing Instructor at the OC, arrived in Portugal for the first time on 21^st March 2007.

-          Fraser N****, Water sports instructor at the OC, arrived in Portugal for the time on 21^st April 2007.- Benjamin W******, from Gloucester, employee of the OC in Luz (residence unknown, apartment hired by the resort).

- Christopher U******, from Leeds, employee of the OC in Luz, (residence unknown, apartment hired by the resort). 

-  Stephen C****** from Bristol, employee of the OC in Luz, (residence unknown, apartment hired by the resort).

-  Robert C***, from Doncaster, Maintenance Driver, arrived in Portugal for the first time on 18t^h May 2007. 

Signed. 

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Service Information


Date: 27 June 2007

Subject: Information regarding two cybercafes in Praia da Luz

Officer: Nuno Nunes, Inspector

Today, at 14h45, I went to Praia da Luz with the intention of obtaining information about computer
users, as well as the traffic effected on 2 and 3 May 2007 in the two cybercafes mentioned below:

1 - Cafetaria Jasmin, in Rua Direita; Manager Bruno J.S.M.; the cafe had two PC terminals,
with an Internet link is via SAPO ADSL. It did not have a record of users, or of client traffic.

2 - Eureka Services, in Rua Direita; Manager Simon R.; the cafe had eight PC terminals,
with three access points for client portables, the Internet link is via Telepac ADSL. It did not
have a record of users, or of client traffic.

This is all that I bring to your attention

Signed

Inspector Nunes..

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Service Information

Date: 2008101123

To the Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation, Paolo Rebelo

From: Inspector Ricardo Paiva

Subject: Sighting of presumed suspect

Regarding the attached service information today telephone contact was made with Mary Stonely about the sighting of an individual similar to the photo fit recently released to the press by the McCann family, the result of the telephone conversation being that the individual who was seen is not the person in question as he is an individual who frequents the area of Altura and is known there and is physically different, having been described as fatter than the person in the photo fit.

I bring this to your knowledge.

Signed

Inspector Paiva   

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Date: 2008-01-21

Service Information

To: The Coordinator, Paolo Rebelo

From: Inspector Patricia Duarte


Subject: Information about Madeleine McCann


I bring to your knowledge that today at about 19.30, Paula Baltazar, receptionist at the Euro Hotel in Altura, contacted this police station to say that two British citizens staying at the hotel and who did not speak Portuguese, had asked her to contact the Portuguese police to say that last Thursday (17th January 2008) in Altura, they had seen an individual similar to the one re-produced on the photo fit as being the individual who was seen carrying Madeleine McCann on the night of her disappearance, this photo fit was recently divulged by the British press.

The receptionist said she knows no more details and said that the guests in question were not at the hotel at this moment, but that they were willing to talk and provide more details to the inspector in charge of the case.

The guests are:

Mary Stonely, bearer of passport nº******, staying in room 211 of the hotel and due to leave on the 26th January 2008;
Pauline Douglas, bearer of passport nº***** staying in room 204 of the hotel and only due to leave during the month of March 2008.


I bring this to your attention.


Signed

Inspector Duarte

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PJ 4th Brigade
From Inspector Joao Carlos

On 19th February 2008, I record in the process files that upon the request of the Ocean Club resort, made by the maintenance director Silvia Baptista, on the 11th of this month, we proceeded to return the key to the apartment G5A where the facts occurred. This apartment, although under the administration of the resort, is private and its owners have requested its use.

This apartment was made available by this police force, after instruction by the magistrate Dr Magalhaes Menezes, once the examinations and forensics to be carried out were completed, it no longer being necessary to occupy the space.

And therefore, it was tacitly agreed that in case it would be necessary to use the apartment for future inquiries, whether forensic or technical, it would immediately be made available.

19th February 2008

Signed

Inspector Joao Carlos

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service Information

Date: 2008 ? 06 ?05

To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation, Paolo Rebelo

From: Inspector Paolo Ferreira

Within the scope of the process referred to above, namely with regard information concerning an unknown individual who had a suspicious attitude during the days before the disappearance of Madeleine McCann next to a telephone booth installed near to the Golfinho restaurant, rua Calhete n? 14 A in Praia da Luz, with the aim of trying to identify this person a list of calls made from that booth was requested, which has already been included in the files.

Upon analysing this list compared with information already received from witnesses it was found that the person in question could only be the person who made calls to the number 214*****.

Subsequent inquiries found that this telephone number is installed in Rua de Sao Reno, lot 3 ? 6 drt, Monte Estoril and is used by Sr P*** R****** M**** d L*******, a retired TAP employee who lives at that address with his wife. During an informal conversation with this man it was established that he has relatives in the Algarve, namely a brother in P da L. Sometimes the brother?s employee goes to the telephone booth to pay and give him some indications as was the case in May.

No relation was found between the numbers from the list of calls made from the booth and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Signed

Paolo Ferreira

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Service Information

Date: 2008-06-17


To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation, Paulo Rebelo

From: Inspector Ricardo Paiva


Subject: Communication to join to the process files

Within the scope of the investigation referred to above into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, this police station received information from the British authorities, telling of an alleged sighting of the girl in the company of three women at about 13.00 on 16th May 2008 at the Lugar de Enquenter restaurant, situated in the Avenida de Mayo in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela.

The alleged sighting was reported to the British authorities by a sailor named Trevor Francis, captain of a sailing yacht who was staying at the Marina Hilton and had lunch at the restaurant that day.

The Liaison Officer of this police force in Venezuela was requested by fax to gather all the pertinent information about this subject as well as the diligences considered appropriate, in the sense of preserving elements (security camera images, contacts with eventual witnesses, etc) in order to check the reliability of this information.

I bring this to your knowledge.

Signed

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 Service Information
 
 Date: 2008 ? 05 ?02
 
 To: The Head of the Criminal Investigation
 
 From: Inspector Joao Carlos
 
 Subject: Supposed sighting
 
 According to the results of the previous information, received by email we can infer that this was a third party intervention, in other words, the person who reported the sighting was not the person who saw it. Patricia Grainger alleged that her friend Rosemary Walley who lives in Portugal, concretely in Praia da Luz at about 8 ? 10 minutes from the apartment Madeleine disappeared from. According to Grainger, her friend Walley, on the night of the disappearance or on the following morning, she does not make this clear, when she was in her garden, supposedly facing the room, she saw a man wearing a sports jacket carrying a rucksack/bag. He was accompanied by a Portuguese woman (it is not clear how she deduced the nationality). The couple got into a mini van and left the scene.
 
 The information is laconical, imprecise and quite vague, there is no reference to the British child or to any other child. Once we got hold of Rosemary Walley?s telephone number and when we spoke to her and told her the reason for our phone call she was speechless. She said that she did not know anything about the disappearance nor about the sighting, saying that the information provided by her friend was fictitious or a misunderstanding. She added that she had told her friend that on the night of the disappearance she saw a man and a woman, the former was carrying a golf bag on his shoulder and that she said this bag, in jocular terms and out of pure derision be linked to the missing girl. That it was a joke made in bad taste as she did not see anything that could conclude or infer this sense, it was a normal couple, nothing more.
 
 With no more to report
 
 Inspector Joao Carlos
 
 Pages 2969 ? 2970 are in English:
 
 
 Fax from Inspector Paiva
 
 To: Joao Silva Pereira
 
 Date 2nd May 2008
 
 Importance: High.
 
 From: DIC Portimao
 
 To: Inspector Paiva
 
 Date: 2nd May 2008
 
 Importance: High
 
 Fax
 
 From DC John Hughes
 
 To: DIC Portimao
 
 Date: 2nd May 2008
 
 CC. Graham Michael
 
 Importance : High
 
 A new possible sighting on the night of 3rd May 2007. Please advise if further enquiries needed here.
 
 DC John Hughes
 
 From: Southan, Daniel
 
 Sent: 2nd May 2008
 
 To: Task
 
 Subject: Madeleine McCann
 
 We have received information from Patricia Grainger regarding a possible sighting of Madeleine on the night she disappeared.
 
 Grainger states she has a friend who lives in Portugal named Rosemary Walley. Walley lives about 8 ? 10 minutes walk from the apartments Madeleine disappeared from.
 
 Walley told Grainger that on the night in question she was sitting in her garden in the early hours of the morning (Grainger can be no more specific about the time), when she saw a male in a sport coat and flannels carrying a bundle, he was with a Portuguese female. Grainger can offer no further description as she did not witness these events.
 
 The male and female got into a people carrier and drove away.
 
 Grainger was told this information some time ago but Walley did not wish to report this to the police either here or in Portugal. Grainger states that her conscience got the better of her and she decided to call the police herself and give this information. It is recorded as West Mercia incident log 208 ? s ? 010508. Both Walley and Grainger are elderly aged in their 70s.
 
 Grainger lives at **** Worcs.
 
 Walley has two addresses, her address in England is *** Worcs.
 
 Her address in Portugal is:
 
 Casa Clung, Caixa 401z, Praia da Luz
 
 Walley is currently at her address in Portugal and is unaware that Grainger has called in with this information. Grainger thinks Walley will fall out with her if or when the police make contact with her over this.
 
 Grainger is more than willing to speak with you if you wish to contact her.
 
 Regards
 
 Dan Southan