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Apensos V Vol XIV 2967-2970.
pdf pages 25 - 28
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
West Mercia Constabulary
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