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External diligence carried out at CESPA service station, A22, Lagoa, 2007.05.08

Officers: A.Brigantim and C.Dordonnat, Inspectors.

Today, the undersigned and his colleague A.B. went to the CEPSA service station on the A22, Lagos to collect information relating to the presence, around 02h30 on 4 May 2007, of a Spanish man, or at least someone who spoke castillian, who had asked the employee the way to "LUZ".
--- The employee concerned, Lino B. (ph.969...), was not present because he works nights, stated [presumably by phone] that on the night of 3-4 May 2007, about 02h10 or 02h15, a man speaking castillian asked directions to "LUZ".
--- The man arrived at the north post (direction Faro/Portimao) Lino not having seen any car prior to his approach.
--- He [Lino] added further that the individual was a man, about 35 years old, about 1,70m tall, short dark hair and wearing a bluish shirt.
--- The PAC had a video surveillance system and the recording is on CD ROM although its date and time were 1 day and 1 hour different from real time.
--- Lino states that the "Spanish" man's approach coincided with a phone call from the southern station.
--- Therefore, in accordance with the information furnished the images timed as being on 5 May 2007 at 03h00 (actually 4 May 2007 at 02h00) were viewed, it being that the employee is seen on the phone at 03h08.
--- The view from the outside camera showed no person going to the PAC, there being only one vehicle filling up, a goods vehicle, white and having a Portuguese licence plate that could not be seen clearly.
--- About 03h25 (recording time) a GNR vehicle pulls up next to the PAC shop and stays for a few minutes.
--- It is added further that the period watched is understood to be between 02h00 and 02h35 (03h00-03h35 recorded time).
--- It is also added that the location of the external camera on the north station allows people and vehicles to be seen only with a certain deficiency.
--- The PAC manager, Mr, Antonio B. (969...), was asked to preserve the images of the above times.
--- Nothing further being determined this work ended.

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Processos Vol XI
Pages 2897 – 2898


External Inquiry Report

Date: 2007-09-25

Place: Albufeira, Lagos and Praia da Luz

Inquiry requested by: Chief Inspector Tavares da Almeida

Executing Officers: Inspectors Ferreira and Gomes


Description and Result of Inquiry:


On the date referred to above and accompanied by my colleague mentioned above, I went to the offices of the car rental agency A.A. Castanheira – Budget, situated in Albufeira. In compliance with orders received from superiors I requested information about the vehicle previously used by the McCann couple, make Renault, model Scenic, number plate 59-DA-27. I was informed that the vehicle in question was returned to the company on the 23rd September at about 15.30, in the company’s Lagos installations. After the return of the vehicle, employee H****** S**** drove the vehicle to the Faro company installations, where it was parked until being taken to the Renault installations in Oeiras, where it was delivered on the 25th September. I was provided with copies of the rental car contract signed by Budget and the arguido Gerald McCann, which are enclosed and which show that the period for the return of the vehicle terminated on 24-09-2007 at 12.30.

In order to provide me with further clarification, my interlocutor put me in telephone contact with I***** P*****, from Budget administration, contactable on ***********. This lady explained to me that the company AA Castanheira-Buget used the vehicle by means of a contract they have with Renault Portugal. The contract they have giving them the right to use the car had already terminated and this is why they had already requested the return of the vehicle by the McCann couple in order to return the Renault. They informed the McCanns that they could exchange the vehicle for another if they wished to continue to use the company’s services. As they showed an interest in continuing to use the same vehicle in question, they were informed that they could continue to do so only if they were to purchase the vehicle, to which they responded negatively and that is why they had to return the car.

Subsequently, and also upon superior orders, we proceeded to inquiries with the aim to determine the identity of the owner of the house where the McCanns had stayed for the last weeks, situated at Rua das Flores, 27, Praia da Luz, Lagos.

We established that the residence is situated in a zone called Luz Parque in Praia da Luz. The owner of the property is A******* M****** of Dutch nationality, contactable on ******. However, this individual had delegated the administration of the property to the rental company Winkworth in Lagos.

In the installations of this company we contacted the person responsible for the administration of the property in question, P***** C*****.

She told us that two “agreements” were signed with the McCann couple for their occupation of the property, copies of which are joined.

She added that after the departure of the McCanns this property was occupied by its owner for a short period before being lent by him to a couple he was friends with, this couple currently occupies the property.

P**** C**** said that during the McCann’s stay in the property, Winkworth also offered a cleaning service, once a week, which was carried out by **** M****.


Signed

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Outros Apensos VIII – Vol 2ª

Page 363


Policia Judiciaria

External Inquiry Report

Date: 2007-05-06

Place: Lagos Marina

Requesting Entity: By superior order

Executing Officers: Inspectors Davide Gomes and Hugo Ferreira


Description and Result of Activity:

We went to the location mentioned above where we requested that all information relating to the movement of entrances into the Marina between 27-04-2007 and 05-05-2007 and departures from 27-04-2007 until today be provided to us. The request was registered and the response will soon be provided to us. When we asked whether the marina has any security video system we were informed that it does not.

Signed

Inspector Gomes


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Outros Apensos VIII – Vol 2ª

Page 365-366 (Page 366 is missing from the DVD)


Policia Judiciaria

External Inquiry Report

Date: 2007-05-09

Place: Praia da Luz, Lagos

Requesting entity:

Executing Officers: Inspectors Pedro David, Arménio Pontes and Hugo Ferreira.


Description and Result of Inquiry:


With the purpose of collecting any information of interest to the investigation, the team mentioned above went to the locations of Praia da Luz and Lagos with the aim of speaking to the taxi drivers who have these localities within their “places” of work.

In this way and during the afternoon of the present day, we went to these “places” in Lagos, having shown the taxi drivers who were there, as well as others who were called to the site, the different photo fits (13-2007 to 20-2007) that were elaborated during this investigation. However, from this exhibition it was not possible to gather any response from our interlocutors that constituted any sign of relevance. Nevertheless, they were advised to be alert to any “abnormal” behaviour within the parameters that were explained to them. Information was collected that, both the taxi drivers who were acting as independent professional workers and those who were associated, do not have any register of services carried out, as a system exists that imposes that any call made by “radio-taxi” is redirected to one of two taxi drivers. It was established that, as an example, regarding the question of who transported an individual at X time to Y destination, by just making contact with the taxi drivers working at that place, it is possible to find out who carried out the service, which obviously implies that such knowledge depends on the memory of the taxi driver himself, the same occurring for the eventual destination of the given trip, characteristics of the client, etc...However, and because there is

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Apensos V, Vol 5
Page 1159

Policia Judiciaria


External Inquiry Report

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Date: 2007-05-23

Place: Faro.

Requesting Entity: Station Coordinator.

Executing Officer: Inspector Carlos Minga

Description and Result of Inquiry:

On this date, the undersigned officer went, on the request of this police station’s coordinator, accompanied by Inspector Paulo Silvestre, to the Hotel Residence “Sun Algarve”, situated in Rua Infante D. Henrique, nº 52 in Faro, with the aim of confirming some information that arrived at this police station, telling of a sighting in the hotel in question at about 18.00, of a girl similar to Madeleine McCann.


At the location contact was made with the receptionist, who informed us that the only girl staying at the hotel was a girl aged about 9 months old and of Australian nationality, who was accompanied by her parents. She also informed us that the Australian family is known to the hotel, as it is the second or third time that they have stayed there.

Signed.

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Apensos V, Vol VII
Pages 1471-1472

External Inquiry Report

Date: 2007-05-31

Place: Sra Catarina da Fonte do Bispo – S. Bras de Alportel

Executing Officers: Chief Inspector Vitor Matos and Inspector Dordonnat.

Description and Result of Inquiry:


On this date, in compliance with superior orders, the undersigned officer, accompanied by Inspector Dordonnat, went to the locality of Sra Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, with the aim of locating an abandoned vehicle, with number 64, existing in front of the church, in which the missing girl Madeleine McCann could have been or could still be.


At the site in question we managed to locate the vehicle, which had number 4 and not number 64, situated at Largo de na Senhora das Dores, on the corner with Rua Joao António Pacheco. The building consists of two floors, with an entrance at Largo de na Senhora das Dores, there being an iron door which is closed with a chain. The door of the building does not present any signs of having been forced. Neither does the garage door present any damage or any sign of having been forced, even presenting signs of not having been opened for a long time. On Rua Joao António Pacheco there is a doorway which gives access to a garden, which in turn provides access to the building, both to the ground floor and first floor. Having checked the space no signs of disturbance were found. All of the building’s windows were closed, no damage was visible. An external analysis of the property shows it to have the aspect of being abandoned.

The building is situated on a central road in the locality, there are some commercial establishments, as well as a primary school, in addition to the church mentioned earlier.

At the site it was possible to find out that the owner of the house is D. Amélia who lives in Lisbon, it being certain that the house is not rented to anyone, and that she goes there frequently. D.Amélia’s sons were seen at the site about 15 days ago.

The persons contacted, residents of the surrounding area, state that they have no noted anything abnormal in the zone, namely next to the house in question, neither have they seen strange cars or persons. No disturbances were reported and D.Amélia’s sons did not report any abnormal situation.

Taking into account the location of the building and the scarcity of elements regarding the origin of the information, together with the fact that nothing abnormal has been detected in the area, the information was judged to be lacking in credibility.

Nothing else being found, the inquiry was terminated.

Signed

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Pages 983-984

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Outros Apensos VIII, Vol I
Pages 20-21

Policia Judiciaria


External Inquiry Report


Date: 2007-05-12

Place: Lagos and others

Requesting Entity: Dr G. Amaral

Executing Entity: Inspectors Ricardo and Ramos

Description and Result of Inquiry:


Following superior orders the undersigned officer accompanied by Inspector Ramos, went to the service and petrol stations in the Lagos area, with the aim of obtaining CCTV images from the period between 30-04-2007 and 06-05-2007, from which the following was found out:

Service and petrol stations with CCTV circuits:

Galp Service Station, on the A22, at Kilometre 4,350, Bensafrim-Lagos in both directions, Portimao-Lagos and Lagos-Portimao. When the supervisor was contacted he said that the CCTV circuit of these service stations is controlled by the company STRONG (Security Department) with headquarters in Lisbon, contact numbers ****. Once we contacted the company, they said that they were willing to make the images available upon receipt of an official document, saying however, that this would only be possible after the following Monday, as the technical personnel were not available.

Galp Service Station – Moura Ferreira e Filhos Lda – EN 120, Lagos in both directions. When the area coordinator was contacted she said that the CCTV system installed there only maintains recorded images, in one of the areas for five days and in the other for eight days and therefore she could only provide the images of one of these areas and only referring to the days 04-06 of May, needing some time, she could deliver the register tomorrow. She requires an official document.

BP Service Station in Telheiro – EN 125, Telheiro, Lagos in both directions. When the owner was contacted he said he was willing to provide a register with the requested images but only next Monday as the technician would only be available on that day.

Repsol Service Station – Auto Marachique, Alvor, Portimao. When the owner was contacted he informed us that the CCTV system only maintains registers for 8 days. He would only have a register from the 6th May and as it was not possible to withdraw the images in a useful period of time, as Securitas would have to be asked to do it, the images were visualised on site, referring to 06-05-2007 until 24.00 (closing of the area) nothing suspicious being observed.

Repsol Service Station – Barlavento Petroleos, Cerro das Mós, Lote 316, Lagos. When the person responsible was contacted she informed that the CCTV circuit installed there records onto a cassette and that this only holds +/- two days of recording, the same cassette always being used, which made our efforts unfeasible.

Service and Petrol Stations without CCTV circuits:

Total Service Station – EN 125 Lagos exit to Sagres, Lagos.
Total Service Station – Av dos Descobrimentos, Lagos.
BP Service Station – Av dos Descobrimentos, Lagos
Repsol (ex - Shell) Service Station - Av dos Descobrimentos, Lagos
Galp Service Station – Auto Jardim, Portimao.
BP Service Station – Penina, EN 125, Portimao.

Signed


Inspectors Ricardo and Ramos

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Processos Vol VI
Pages 1398-1399

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Outros Apensos VIII, Vol I
Pages 22-23


Letter from Galp Geste to the PJ.

Lisbon, 15th May 2007


Subject: Request for Images


N/Ref: 2007.078CG Lagos
V/Ref NUIPC 201/07.oGALGS Date 13-05-2007

In response to your request for recordings from the security video system, for the period between 00.00 on 30-04-2007 and 24.00 on the day 06-05-2007 in the installations of our Service Area in Lagos (in both directions) we inform you that this is not possible as we do not have these images.

The video security system records onto a hard disk, which has a limited capacity and which had already been exceeded when we received your request.

We have a recording of the period between 11.03 and 11.36 on 04-05-2007, in the Portimao-Lagos direction, with images referring to the individuals whose images were collected by your investigators in the Service Area. This recording is at your disposal.

We regret that we cannot comply with your request.

With compliments.


Galpgeste Manager

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Page 1400

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Processos Vol IV
Page 982

Policia Judiciaria

Fax

Confidential
Very Urgent


To: Strong, Security Department

From: Dr G. Amaral, Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

Date: 13-05-2007

Ref: NUIPC201/070GALGS


Subject: Register of Images


Within the scope of the investigations taking place in this DIC of the Policia Judiciaria related to the case mentioned above, we ask you to preserve and send as urgently as possible, the CCTV images obtained between 00.00 of the day 30-04-2007 and 24.00 of the day 06-05-2007 from the Galp Service Stations, situated on the A22, Bensafrim-Lagos, at KM 4.350, in the directions of Lagos Portimão and Portimão-Lagos.


Signed

G. Amaral


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