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PJ Final Report
pages 1 and 2
Ministry Of Justice
Judiciary Police
Investigative Criminal Department of Portimao
NUIPC-201/07.0 GALGS
4th Brigade
Inspector Joao Carlos
Denouncer/Offended – Judiciary Police
Denunciated/Arguidos - Robert James Queriol Evelegh Murat,
identified and questioned at fls. 1170, 1947 and 1959.
*Gerald Patrick McCann, identified and questioned at fls. 2569.
*Kate Marie Healy, identified and questioned at fls. 2557.
Witnesses/Persons inquired – see Index
Type of Crime – Unknown
Time and Place – Between 21H05 and 22H00 of the day 3 May of
2007, at the G5A apartment, located at the touristic resort
‘Ocean Club’, Vila da Luz, Lagos.
Apprehended Objects – see Index (all the apprehended objects
were given back to the owners by means of term)
Examinations done – see Index
Final Report
Introduction
These documents relate to an occurrence which describes the
disappearance of a minor of British nationality, MADELEINE BETH
MCCANN daughter of GERALD PATRICK MCCANN and KATE MARIE HEALY,
on the date with three (almost four) years old.
According to the Time and Place, the facts occurred on the day 3
of May of 2007, in a temporal hiatus, understood to be between
21H05 and 22H00 (being certain that after 17H30, only GERALD and
KATE had contact with MADELEINE) at the resort named 'Ocean
Club', located in Vila da Luz, Lagos, place, where the minor’s
family, along with seven other persons, with whom they had a
friendship relationship, where enjoying some holidays, with the
duration of one week.
The arrival of the group from England, at national territory,
via Faro's airport, took place on the 28 of April 2007.
They travelled in two separate groups, since they live in
different locations. The trip from the airport to the place of
Luz was done in a mini bus, provided by the resort management
company 'Mark Warner'.
pages 3 and 4
Upon check-in, they were placed into several apartments, all
located in block G5, next to each other, which was an
imposition, or at least a suggestion, made by the entire group.
They were all lodged in the ground floor, except the PAYNE
family (David, Fiona and Diane Webster), which was lodged in the
first floor.
The MCCANN family was given apartment G5A, which is located on
the left end of the residential block (seen from the front) and
therefore, it can be said, the most accessible one and with
facilitated visibility from the outside.
This is a group where seven of the elements are medics, from
various specialties, which adds to the fact that all of them
have under-age children, which accompanied them. The MCCANN
family was composed of the parents, as well as MADELEINE and the
twins SEAN and AMELIE, these being two years old, at the date of
the facts.
This trip was organized by the PAYNE family, namely by the male
element of the couple, DAVID ANTHONY PAYNE, who had knowledge,
as a user, of the tourist resorts that belong to the "Mark
Warner" company.
The group shared among themselves a friendship that existed
before this trip, based on professional relationships and other
holiday trips.
It is pointed out that this was the first time that the elements
of the group were on holidays at this resort on national
territory for the first time, and that the group's will to carry
out the trip was planned approximately one month before it took
place.
On the other hand, nothing indicates that any of the
participants had any previous connection to Vila da Luz or that
there resided or stayed any person related to them.
The group's daily routine implied their movement, for dinner, to
the Tapas Restaurant, which is located at the resort (although
outside of the specific area of the apartments and without
permitting a complete visual control of the latter), while their
underage children remained alone – supposedly asleep – in their
apartments while the dinner was under way.
According to the group's common version, the checking of the
children was done through regular visits by the adults to the
apartments, with an – approximate – spacing of half an hour,
with the exception of the children of the PAYNE couple, that
possessed a technological system of self control, via
intercommunication ("baby listening").
Constitution of the group:
DAVID ANTHONY PAYNE – apartment 5H (first floor)
FIONA ELAINE PAYNE
DIANNE WEBSTER
RUSSEL JAMES O’BRIEN – apartment 5D
JANE MICHELLE TANNER
pages 5 and 6
MATTHEW DAVID OLDFIELD – apartment 5B
RACHAEL MARIAMMA (sic) JEAN MANPILLY
GERALD PATRICK McCANN – apartment 5A
KATE MARIE HEALY
The aforementioned persons were interviewed carefully and in
great detail, on various occasions (see index), with the
intention to collect all the relevant elements that could help
the investigation to uncover the truth regarding the facts.
The analysis of the grouping of these inquiries emphasized the
existence of important details which were not entirely
understood and integrated, which needed to be, from our
viewpoint, tested and compared together [concatenated] in the
actual location.
As such, a concrete understanding of the lack of synergy of some
aspects of elevated relevance should be attempted through a
processed diligence via the reconstitution of the facts, which,
due to a lack of collaboration of several relevant witnesses,
was not able to be accomplished, in spite of all the force
brought by the authorities.
Further ahead, in this report, the necessity of this diligence
will be better analysed.
The investigation, during more than 13 months, followed all the
credible indices related to different hypotheses and, in an
impartial manner, continued to analyse, correlate and synthesize
them, looking for an explanation for the happenings of the night
of 3 May 2007.
Assuming that the minor's disappearance was due to the acts of
third parties, the PJ explored various lines of investigation,
not excluding any hypothesis considered plausible or
hypothetically acceptable.
From the documentation, you will observe that during the
investigation various possibilities were contemplated.
As such, consider:
1. abduction, for sexual exploration or other (e.g, later
adoption, child trafficking, organ trafficking), without
homicide;
2. abduction, followed by homicide with (or without) hiding of
the corpse;
3. accidental death, with later hiding of the corpse;
pages 7 and 8
The Hypothesis 1 and 2 were considered in the double notion of
the illicit of abduction (if that happened) that could have had
occurred due to feelings of revenge by the
Kidnapper(s) towards the parents (intended abduction) or by
taking merely the opportunity of the child being at a vulnerable
situation (opportunity abduction).
As a remote hypothesis, the possibility of the minor leaving the
apartment by her own means was explored – that would be highly
unlikely physically – and after, because of an accident or by a
third person intervention, she would have disappeared.
***
As to the present report, and for a better understanding, it
will be divided in to 5 major areas, to know:
- Generic diligences for the localization of the minor, entwined
in the main body of the Inquest, done by the Judiciary Police,
the Maritime Police and the G.N.R.;
- Thematic Appendixes, in a total of nine (sub-divided into 55
volumes) referred to the fls. 3528-a, whose creation allows to
complement the main body of the processes and to follow up all
the information received and treated;
- The suspicions about ROBERT MURAT, and his status of arguido;
- The Cadaver Dogs Units searches and the subsequent
establishment of the parents of the British minor, GERALD MCCANN
and KATE HEALY as arguidos;
- The forensic and laboratorial exams, done at the Forensic
Science Service and at the National Institute of Forensic
Medicine, from now on designated as the FSS and INML,
correspondingly;
Even though there is this division in to sub groups, the present
report will be done by order of occurrence or information,
without the obstacle of joining by themes, when the
chronological order it is not sufficient.
***
As stated before, it was done a presentation of the
intervenients in the process and a brief introduction of the
facts. Following, we will do a more detailed explanation, where,
likewise, the various intervenients will match and the actions
done by them will take on a procedural relevance.
***
Relative to the appendixes, in a total of nine, where divided
thematically as stated:
Appendix I – Forensic Exams – where all the exams and forensics
that were carried out by scientific and technical entities,
specifically those who are destined to the detection, collection
and traces analyses that could lead to the understanding of what
happened and to the discovery of the culprits in the
disappearance of the minor.
pages 9 and 10
Appendix II – Analysis of communications – where all the
inventory, analysis and pertinent correlations, which were
possible and eventually relevant about the communications and
movements that were made before, during and after the facts,
were made;
Appendix III – Inspections, canine, maritime and air searches –
where the specific diligences that were carried out in an
attempt to physically locate the minor, especially in the
surrounding areas, are described;
Appendix IV – Searches/apprehensions, direct exams,
delivery/deposit of goods – where the set of diligences that
were directed on goods or items that could eventually be
connected to the disappearance are listed;
Appendix V – Supposed sightings and localizations – where the
news that had some credibility and signalled the alleged
presence of the child in various locations worldwide, as well as
the hundreds of diligences that were carried out to confirm or
dismiss them, are listed.
As it is known, the disappearance of the British minor, under
the circumstances that were described, implied the action of
diverse entities, with special relevance for the intervention of
the Polícia Judiciária, which was joined by other forces of
criminal police. In parallel, this disappearance concentrated an
unmatched dynamics from the media, both national and foreign,
namely and with more emphasis in the United Kingdom, which
filled, for days in a row, their news at prime time with live
transmissions from Praia da Luz, and special programmes that
were dedicated to the issue.
On the other hand, the parents of the minor, set out in the most
diversified contacts and appeals, with the diffusion of
MADELEINE images, whilst, the British authorities opened up
a phone-line for permanent and specialized contact, to gather
all the information relative to the disappearance, as well as
information coming from Interpol and other homologous Police
forces.
This activity (diffusion), besides the informative aspects from
the media, aimed to acquire, in the shortest period of time,
information that could contribute to the investigation in two
aspects, the discovery of MADELEINE with life and gather
substance that could attest the circumstances of her
disappearance and in case of associating to it a criminal action
by a third person, having requested for that matter the focused
cooperation of the population.
This desire for cooperation had the result that through various
sources and using the most diversified means, with special focus
on direct communications towards the police, the PJ received the
most varied information.
From the 4th of May, 2007 - the day after the facts - onwards,
initially at an inordinate rhythm, the Policia Judiciaria
received thousands of news about sightings and locations that
covered the entire national territory, the most diversified
locations abroad, from neighbouring Spain to faraway Indonesia
and Singapore, with the missing child being "recognised" at the
most diversified locations, in multiple situations and company,
in such manner that on the same day, she is allegedly seen at
locations that are 4000 km apart.
pages 11 and 12
Some of the information did not merit, due to the circumstances
surrounding it, the least credibility, leaving those, at the
other extreme, which required a more solid and effective
systemization and treatment. Those which, by their geography and
time-space relevance, seemed credible were thoroughly explored
and included in the documentation and this appendix.
There remains a large, diffuse stain of supposed sightings and
localizations – some receiving notable emphasis, such as those
in Belgium and Morocco – which had few, vague, discordant,
incompatible or incongruent elements, which deserved a treatment
with a view towards their infirmaçao or set aside for the
future, should solid elements arise, which all are herein
included;
Appendix VI 1 – Information/Lists of Suspects of Sexual Crimes –
where you will find a detailed reviews, from the perspective of
the possibility of encountering correlations with suspects with
sexual motives;
Appendix VI 2 – Diligences and Exploration of Information
related to the aforementioned – in which, in conformity with
that already expressed and in order to provide a better
consultation, were gathered the information collected about
residents in the surrounding areas – temporary and permanent –
as well as a listing of local crime (break-ins and others) and
crimes of a sexual nature. The information provided came to this
Police by individual knowledge, through British authorities or
by other sources;
Appendix VII - Letters Rogatory – outlining the diligences
performed, at the request of the Portuguese judiciary, in
foreign countries;
Appendix VIII – Transportation, Movement and Location of
Sightings – in this appendix are collected and analyzed the
information related to possible means of transportation/flight,
by land means (road—trains), sea and air. Also explored were
information related to the delivery of photographs from
individuals in the area for holidays and obtained by the Police,
along with various hotel chains, whose examinations yielded
nothing useful;
Juridic Actions
In addition, and in
spite of its irrelevance, there were meanwhile added 22
"dossiers" with notifications of a speculative or clearly
incredible nature, such as psychic visions or divinations, which
will not be included with the documentation, but which you will
find carefully organized, in the eventuality that they may need
to be consulted in the future.
* * *
DEVELOPMENT
The present documentation originated from a process elaborated
by this Police, having received notice of the disappearance of a
minor of British nationality of three years of age. The
occurrence was communicated by the GNR at 00h10 on 4 May 2007.
pages 13 and 14
According to that police force, the disappearance would have
occurred at 22H40 (later on it was verified that the detection
and the subsequent alarm of the same, in reality happened,
between 22H00 and 22H10 of the day 3 of May of 2007, in one of
the apartments of the tourist resort 'Ocean Club', located at
Vila da Luz, Lagos, where a family composed by a couple and 3
children under aged were staying.
Topologically, the apartment is composed by two bedrooms, a
kitchen, a living room and a bathroom, with easy access to the
street, from the both the front and the back, where there is a
small balcony and a sliding door.
At the time of the disappearance, the children were alone in the
apartment. However the couple, during dinner, went two times to
the same, one of those times being the one where the mother
(KATE) noticed that her oldest daughter was no longer there
alerting all for that fact.
Aware of this fact, the police squad went to the place, to
initiate the relevant investigative steps, at that moment.
Immediately they proceeded with the identifications of the
progenitors, GERALD MCCANN and KATE HEALY, as well as of the
disappeared minor, MADELEINE BETH MCCANN, born on the 12 of May
of 2003, in the United Kingdom. Besides MADELEINE the couple has
two more children, twins, with two years old, at the time of the
facts, who were also staying in the same bedroom from where the
child disappeared.
Informally, GERALD MCCANN said that he was on the resort since
the 28 of April 2007, on vacation, for a period of time
corresponding to a week. The day after their arrival, 29/05/07,
they started doing their meals at the 'Ocean Club' restaurant,
which is distanced a few meters away from the apartment, with
the company of three other couples, who had also travelled with
them.
Specifically to what is relative to the day 3, he alleged that:
- they woke up around 07H30, had breakfast in the apartment,
going out at around 09H00;
- soon after, they left their children at the nursery, until
12H30;
- around 14H30, after lunch, they put their children back at the
nursery, this time until 17H00;
- at 17H30 they did the children's hygiene, and settle them in
their respective beds by 19H30, all in the same bedroom;
- at 20H30, the couple went out to the restaurant;
- at 21H05/21H15 the father went to check the children, noticing
that all was normal, the window and the blinds were closed,
however the door to the room seemed more opened than when he had
left;
pages 15 and 16
- at around 9.20 p.m., a friend from the group, JANE TANNER,
when heading for her apartment, noticed an individual who
carried a child in his arms, walking down the road. She
described him as aged 30 to 40, with dark hair and wearing light
coloured trousers;
- at 9.30 p.m., it was the time for another friend, MATTHEW
OLDFIELD, to go to the MCCANNS' apartment to check on the
children, but he only saw the twins, given the fact that he did
not enter the room. In order to see MADELEINE'S bed, he would
have to go inside. He detected nothing out of the ordinary;
- at around 10 p.m., when KATE went to the apartment she
verified that MADELEINE had disappeared, and that the window and
shutters of the bedroom were open.
Apart from that, and according to what was established within
the investigation in the meantime, the witness MATTHEW OLDFIELD
assumes that, at around 8.55 p.m., he went near the outside of
the window of the bedroom where MADELEINE was sleeping – a
window that was closed – in order to verify if there was any
noise in the inside that might indicate that the child was not
asleep. He heard nothing, therefore concluding that everything
was well.
Due to its relevance, on that very night the Maintenance
Director, SILVIA BAPTISTA, was asked for a list of the resort's
guests and the check outs on the 3rd, as well as the
identification of the crèche workers, where the children stayed
during the day.
It should be emphasized that the entire apartment had been
searched and rummaged by an undetermined number of people, with
the contamination that it brings and the difficulty that it
raises for the collection of residues.
On that very night, the surroundings of the apartment, and Vila
da Luz itself, were intensely searched through, both by the GNR
members and by members of the public.
Concerning that and other searches on subsequent days, the proof
is given by the report that was written by the GNR from pages
3491-a to 3525-a, with the latter being a cartographic
remission. The same procedure was made by the Maritime Police,
according to the report from pages 3867 until 3885.
On page 06 the air registration of the luggage pertaining to the
MCCANN family was appended, as well as the passport that belongs
to the missing minor.
From pages 12 to 23, we can observe the photographic coverage of
the location of the facts, which were collected on that night,
as well as a layout of the apartment.
On page 26 the report that was written by the GNR can be found,
on page 30 the photograph of the minor that was given by the
parents, taken from a memory card and revealed on a printer that
belongs to one of the nannies, as will be seen further on, and
the press communication, on pages 33-B.
It should be pointed out, in terms of the media knowledge and
divulgation, that witness RACHEL MAMPILLY, at around 2 a.m. on
the morning of the 4th, assumes to have contacted the official
British television BBC, through someone that she knew, reporting
the disappearance and asking for it to be broadcast.
pages 17 and 18
First thing in the morning on 4 May, and already within the
framework of heavy media coverage, an interview of the entire
group took place, pages 34-83, interrogations which were
repeated later.
From pages 86 to 118, there are included details relative to the
identity of the nannies (CATRIONA BAKER and STACEY PORTZ) and
all the officials of the establishment, with the two that dealt
with the MCCANN children being heard informally; nothing unusual
having been reported by them, they were formally interviewed
again later.
In subsequent days, with the participation of over a hundred
researchers from the PJ, the enormous collection of diverse
notifications about the disappearance was reviewed, having been
already completed innumerable contacts resulting from the
ongoing processing of information.
The collection of notifications was transmitted by a wide
variety of sources, coming to the PJ by various means, requiring
the installation of a permanent police post within the Luz
village.
The result of such efforts is found in the documentation and the
various appendices, having been spent thousands of hours of work
in its completion.
It should be noted, also, the receipt of an enormous quantity of
fantastical notifications, devoid of any credibility, which
forced the research into constant and considerable clarification
efforts, all the more important as it was known that time was of
the utmost importance in the fundamental goal of finding the
missing girl.
* * *
Resuming the factual description, it is noteworthy that from
pages 119 and forward, the witness JEREMY WILKINS, affirmed that
he saw an individual with a strange appearance and behaviour.
This was eventually confirmed to be a guest, who participated in
the searches, page 124.
From pages 127 and following, relates the the sighting of a
child, with a face similar to MADELEINE's, in a gas station.
When the images from the gas station were shown to the parents,
they peremptorily affirmed that they did not represent their
daughter.
On page 134, is reported a situation, once again resulting from
physical similarities with MADELEINE, later verified as not
being the child. In addition, an attempt was made to locate an
individual referred for sexual abuse of minors, later coming to
verify that at the relevant time period, he was no longer in
Portugal.
pages 19 and 20
There was a inquest to DENISE BERYL ASHTON, fls. 136, which
reported the presence of two individuals, who she could not
identify or recognize, which, alleged that they were conducting
a petitioning in behalf of a children's institution, which would
be fraudulent. Despite that this situation took place on the day
03 May, we could not relate it with the disappearance of the
British minor, nor the description corresponds to the sketch
widespread in the media by the press officer of the MCCANN
couple, issue that will be addressed next .
From the Fls. 140 to 144, it was reported an alleged sighting of
the minor, which, after several diligences, was proved, again,
to be another child.
A witness, DEREK FLACK, heard at page 200, reported the presence
of a suspect, who was allegedly looking at the target apartment,
near a white truck, pages 145 and following pages. It was not
possible to identify this person, despite having been made a
portrait-robot, page 205. However, we believe there are very
strong possibilities of being construction workers – who were
there making small works - a gardener (fls. 973), or BARRINGTON
NORTON (fls 833), inquired at page 704. The latter is a regular
of Praia da Luz, engaged in the activity of musician on the
streets of the town. Nothing was found relevant to the
investigation.
From the page 161 to 197, NUNO JESUS, reported a situation
connected with his daughter, with clear similarities with
Madeleine, which was the victim of an alleged attempt to kidnap
(qualified by himself) by a Polish couple, whose registration of
the hire car and used in national territory, he provided to the
police. They were approached when going back to their native
country, nothing was detected that could incriminate them, pages
214 to 216. The car and the place where they had enjoyed their
holidays was analysed in a laboratory, but once again without
incriminating results
It was near the report at page 148, where it's described the
approach door-to door taken in 443 houses, all of them in Praia
da Luz, which is demonstrative of the gigantic work that would
be carried out. Such approach included the physical entrance,
with the agreement of the inhabitants, in many just to verify
completely the eventual presence of traces of the minor
disappeared.
LANCE PURSE, inquired at page 208, did equally a sketch of an
individual, page 210, which possessed similar characteristics
similar to the one related by another witness, who also didn't
identify himself.
At pages 211 and 212, it is reported another occurrence relative
to an individual referenced for sexual abuse of minors, who,
after the approach of the same, nothing of relevance was brought
to the present investigation.
"Mutatis mutandis", [literally "changes changed", from Latin, in
this instance someone who changes constantly of mood], relative
to a guest from the female gender, who revealed a odd behaviour,
but with no vector of correlation to the disappearance of
MADELEINE MCCANN.
At page 220 the hearings of the resort employees started, from
there nothing resulted as being relevant or useful for the
investigation at course. From the hearings there were no
elements collected which allowed to follow any line of
investigation.
pages 21 to 26
Inquired employees: -----
A huge list of names which I will not write here for the right
to privacy of these people.
The baby sitters that talked to the media in previous interviews
are on the list.
CATRIONA T. S. BAKER
STACEY PORTZ
CHARLOTTE E. A. PENNINGTON
Also several G.N.R. Military, belonging to various areas,
patrols and binomials (sic) were heard in declarations - list of
names
***
end of page 26 : In the path of the diligences of localization,
it was requested the entry registrar of the Marina de Lagos,
place who does not have a system to collect images, usually
called by CCTV, page 290.
pages 27 and 28
Information was also collected that the road known as A22,
usually known as “Via Infante de Sagres”, does not have images
available either, to match the period of time that would be of
interest.
Diligences were carried out to try to locate and discover the
routines of individuals that are related to criminal practices
of a sexual nature, pages 293 to 300, 448 to 451, 452 and 453;
nothing was discovered that could be characterized as relevant.
From pages 309 to 311, and because it could be important, we
mentioned the only register of a repair that was carried out in
the apartment that was used by the MCCANN family, without major
relevance.
* * *
The situation concerning the first suspect, ROBERT MURAT, will
now be approached, thus following a line of the succession of
the facts, without prejudice of returning to the description of
occurrences further ahead.
A few days after the facts took place, suspicions were raised
concerning an individual that resides approximately 100/150
metres away from apartment 5A, identified as ROBERT JAMES
QUERIOL EVELEIGH MURAT.
These suspicions arose initially due to the formulation by a
British journalist, who found the special commitment and
curiosity of MURAT in this case to be strange, which had
reminded her of another [case] that had taken place in the
United Kingdom with similar outlines and where the guilty
persons had actively participated in searches.
The reasons for said suspicion are duly listed within the
information that is contained in the process, on pages 308, 328,
442, 461, 957, 960, 961 and 986 to 1000, being certain that they
ended up being reinforced, some time later, by elements of the
holiday group that asserted, contrary to what MURAT said, that
he had participated in the searches on the evening of the
disappearance.
In an initial phase, before the investigation was deepened, this
individual gathered the conditions to be pointed out as a
suspect. The conditions that are intrinsical to his suspect
status, can be analysed, as stated before, on the routine
reports that were mentioned above.
In order to confirm or dismiss the suspicions about ROBERT
MURAT, searches and telephone surveillance were requested, pages
995 to 1013, both on the suspect and on the individuals with
whom he directly or indirectly interacted, namely with who he
met almost daily and maintained telephone contacts.
Despite the exhaustive and methodical investigation into MURAT
and the persons close to him, no elements whatsoever were
collected to relate him to the crime that was under
investigation, and it should be noted that contrary to what
witnesses within the group stated concerning his hypothetical
participation in the searches on the night of the disappearance,
other witnesses (like SILVIA BAPTISTA and elements of the GNR)
asserted that they had not seen him during those diligences.
pages 29 and 30
Beyond the communication interceptions and forensic exams of the
computers belonging to them, which pointed to nothing useful,
several searches were also performed in the suspect’s home, as
mentioned earlier, with cino-technical assistance and
exploration of the subsoil, both physically and by technological
detection means, which also did not allow for the collection of
exact evidence.
Be aware that, in relation to the utilization of very advanced
technological means, in the area of the detection of strange
bodies in the subsoil or enclosed [walled in], these were
performed specifically by technicians from Aveiro University,
using equipment that allowed a detailed search of the area.
This [research] continued in the same way in relationship to all
the vehicles of the group, with no results.
The homes and vehicles were examined in great detail by the
Scientific Police Laboratory, without finding any relevant
vestiges.
The analyses of the telephone and electronic communications
(reports in appendix II) and the resultant correlation, had the
same results.
In the interrogation headquarters, the suspect denied any
involvement with the process. The interviews with all the
elements, with personal and professional relationships with
ROBERT MURAT, also did not deliver anything of value as
evidence.
In truth, in the unfolding of the searches, several objects were
apprehended, for later analysis, without having obtained any
incriminating evidence, which you can better observe in Volume V
of the documentation, where the processual pieces related to the
searches are found.
* * *
Returning to the sequence of information which has some
relevance related to finding the minor, there came forth
information about the presence of a sack [bag] near a cliff in
Ponta da Piedade, Lagos, pages 316 to 327, whose contents
revealed nothing of importance.
Page 463, reveals information related to an individual who spoke
in Castellean, whose involvement was not able to be discovered.
Pages 524 to 531, 740 to 749, provide information about supposed
sightings of the minor, all of them disparate amongst
themselves.
On page 800, the interview with TASMIN MILBURN SILENCE is
presented, who saw on two occasions and on several other days,
an individual observing the apartment from which MADELEINE
disappeared. A photo-fit was created based on the witness'
indications . . . diligences were performed which led to the
identification of MICHAEL ANTHONY GREEN, who was the target of
diverse diligences without incriminatory results, pages 632 to
726 of Volume III, Appendix VI. Beyond this individual, there
were other diligences performed at this level, also without
useful results for the investigation, as is explained throughout
Appendix VI.
pages 31 and 32
Still on Appendix VI, pages 504 and
in the following, it was
investigated a situation relative to
two individuals, NEIL BERRY and
RAJINDER BALU (complementary
inquests requested in the letter
rogatory), specifically relative
with the first one, whose
information was crossed with the
above aforementioned witness, TASMIN
SILENCE, namely to what concerns the
photo-fit, having this one made
clear that it was not that same
individual.
This occurrence was targeted due to
an information given by an employee
of the resort, pages 504 and 505 of
the Appendix VI, where a somewhat
peculiar situation was reported,
supposedly to do with NEIL BERRY.
However, in spite of the diligences
done, inclusive in the letter
rogatory, nothing was established
that connected him to the
disappearance of the British child.
At the pages 801 and the following,
an information was worked relative
to a sighting done by a professional
taxi driver.
Also relative to the individuals who
do this type of professional work
and who have their headquarters in
Praia da Luz, page 818, we talked
with them but nothing of relevant
for the process was determined.
At the pages 820 to 822, an
information from the maritime police
was added, creating several
diligences, however had no results.
From the page 825 to 830, we added a
report of the G.N.R. police action.
Nothing of pertinent value was
deducted.
For the analyses and dismissal of
eventual relevant situations,
traffic reports were requested in
the places considered of higher
interest, page 823, relatively to
the days 2, 3 and 4th of May of
2007, and that was object of a
highly detailed analytical report
(see Appendix II), though without
criminal conclusions.
At page 835, a report of a diligence
done in a gipsy camp was done,
nothing useful was gathered.
At page 848 and following and from
pages 856 to 857 a synopsis of the
interrogations done to the resort
employees was made.
At page 859, it’s related a
situation eventually suspicious
which leads to nothing of interest
for the process.
At page 868, an occurrence is
reported (about a couple who had an
argument, where is mentioned the
disappearance of a child), after
investigation this did not lead to
relevant elements.
From page 870 to 883, it was done
the reconstitution of the places
outside the nursery, where the
British child and her nanny went.
At page 884 and the following, it
was added the lophoscopy [study of
fingerprints] report where only
finger traces of KATE HEALY were
found, namely on the window’s frame
who would have been opened at the
time of the disappearance, and at
page 967, another report describing
the same type of exam, this time
without any match, though the
diffusion done at an International
and national level, page 1470. Later
on we verified that that trace
wasn’t of author (sic), page 1480.
Page 33 and 34
On pages 886 and following, a typed
report can be observed, which was
elaborated by the holidaying group
after a detailed joint meeting, that
recalls that steps that were made on
that evening, describing the facts
both in time and space.
On page 993, there is a report
listing the apartments that were
subject to searches, with special
attention on blocks 4 and 5.
On pages 983 and 984, the
preservation, for visualization
purposes, of images from several
petrol stations was requested, but
nothing out of the ordinary was
observed, page 3191.
On pages 1101 and following, several
pieces of information from Interpol
are listed, alerting towards
supposed sightings of the minor, in
several European countries, but
absolutely nothing was found.
Diverse information concerning other
suspects of crimes of sexual abuse
of minors and paedophilia, page 1246
and following, which, after due
analysis, did not contribute with
anything of interest for the
investigation.
On page 1398 there is an answer to
the question from page 1400,
informing that there are no other
images from the GALP station, apart
from those that were already
delivered.
On page 1592, a divulgation,
appealing to the person who on the
3rd of May 2007, at around 9.30
p.m., in Praia da Luz, transported a
child in his arms, to identify
himself, in order to dismiss the
situation that was narrated by
witness JANE TANNER.
Further on this issue, the testimony
of MARTIN SMITH was considered,
pages 1606 and following, reporting
the sighting of an individual
carrying a child, in one of the
streets that lead to the beach. It
was said that the child could be
MADELEINE McCANN, although it was
never peremptorily stated. Some time
later, the witness alleged that, by
its stance, the individual who
carried the child could be GERALD
McCANN, which was concluded when he
saw him descending the stairs from
an airplane, pages 2871, 3991 and
following and 4135 and following. It
was established that at the time
that was being mentioned, GERALD
McCANN was sitting at the table, in
the Tapas Restaurant.
The workers that carried out
construction works in Vila da Luz
were heard, pages 1650 and 1651, who
did not detect anything strange,
during their works of excavation and
placement of plumbing (also see
pages 3983 to 3987), although they
carefully verified, on the day that
followed the disappearance and
before they started the works, if
there was a body hidden next to said
works.
From pages 1811 to 1827 we appended
two lab tests and the corresponding
reports, which turned out to have no
evidential interest for the process.
On pages 1846 and following, a
situation of fraud was reported,
concerning misleading and fraudulent
information relating to the
whereabouts of MADELEINE McCANN.
This individual, who was the author
of the fraud, was detained, and
confessed to know nothing about the
facts, after detailed and pertinent
diligences were carried out by the
authorities of the Netherlands,
within the frame of a Rogatory
Letter. The main report, which
comprises the diligences that were
requested and carried out by the
Dutch Police can be found in the
corresponding appendix.
pages 35 and 36
On page 1897, a Spanish journalist
was heard, who was to have
information about the alleged
abductor. Once again, nothing was
supplied that allowed for the
substantiation of such suspicions.
An attempt was made to obtain
identification elements from users
of computer equipment in two
establishments in Luz, which was not
possible, as explained on page 1900.
On page 2006 and forward, is found
the report of an identical occurance
to one that had happened in Holland,
coming to be found to pertain to,
once again, untrue information about
the child. With the prestigious
collaboration of the Spanish
authorities, Grupo de Sequestros de
Madrid, it was possible to identify
the couple responsible for the false
information, with only the male
being detained under the auspices of
an outstanding detention mandate.
* * *
Now the question related to the
performance of the British dogs will
be covered, along with the
consequent quality assumed by the
parents of MADELEINE, once again
with the ability to revisit the
description later in the report.
In this way, from pages 1989 and
following, one can read the full
report by MARK HARRISON, whose
specialty is the search for missing
people or homicide victims,
including catastrophe scenarios. He
provided the use of canines,
specialized in the detection of
vestiges of human blood and human
cadaver odor.
This is an inspection technique
commonly used in the United Kingdom,
frequently with positive results,
consisting of the utilization of two
especially trained dogs.
One of the dogs is trained to detect
cadaver odor and the other to detect
vestiges of human blood, with
existing knowledge that their prior
usage had resulted in significant
results, principally in the
detection of vestiges, which had
then been, later, confirmed in the
laboratory.
After a positive joint meeting with
the British police, it was decided
to use this capability and a large
number of objects and locations were
examined, with these diligences
being recorded in films which are
included in the documentation
(appendix III).
In some of these locations and
objects, the animals exhibited the
behaviour of identification and "signaling",
including:
pages 37 and 38
1 - Apartment 5A, of the resort
'Ocean Club', place from where the
child disappeared.
- cadaver odour dog:
*in the couple’s bedroom, in a
corner, close to the wardrobe;
*in the living room, behind the
sofa, close to the lateral window of
the apartment;
- blood dog:
* in the living room, behind the
sofa, close to the lateral window of
the apartment (exactly as it was
signalled by the cadaver odour dog);
2 – Area of the backyard, close to
the apartment 5A:
- cadaver odour dog:
* in a flowerbed, commented by the
dog handler the lightness of the
scent detected;
3 – Apartments where the rest of the
elements of the group stayed
* NOTHING was detected by any of the
dogs;
4 – House of the MCCANNs at the date
of the inspection
* NOTHING at the house, was detected
by any of the dogs;
5 - In the area of Vila da Luz
* NOTHING was detected by any of the
dogs;
6 – In the clothes and belongings of
the Family MCCANN
- cadaver odour dog:
* in two pieces of clothing
belonging to KATE HEALY
* in a piece of clothing of the
minor MADELEINE
* in the plush toy, possibly
belonging to MADELEINE (it was
detected cadaver odour, when the
plush was inside the residence – at
the date occupied by the family)
7 – In the vehicle used by the
MCCANN family
- cadaver odour dog:
* signalled the key of the vehicle;
- blood dog:
* signalled the key of the vehicle;
* signalled the interior of the
vehicle’s boot;
8 – In the vehicle used by a friend
of the family, who stayed in the
same resort, matching some of the
holiday days.
pages 39 and 40
* NOTHING was detected by either
dog;
9. In all the vehicles that were
used by arguido ROBERT MURAT and
persons that are close to him;
* NOTHING was detected by either
dog.
(in a total of ten vehicles, the
cadaver odour dog and the blood
odour dog only signaled the vehicle
that belonged to the MCCANN family,
which was rented on the 27th of May)
On the locations and the pieces that
were marked and signaled by the
blood dog, forensics tests were
performed, especially at a reputed
British laboratory (Forensic Science
Service – check Appendixes I and VII
– FSS Final Report) but also, some
of them at the reputed National
Institute of Forensics Medicine
(check Appendix I), whose final
results did not corroborate the
canine markings, which is to say,
cellular material was collected that
was not identified as pertaining to
anyone specific, and it was not even
possible to determine the quality of
that material (v.g. whether it could
be blood or another type of bodily
fluid).
But during a first scientific
approach (pages 2617 and following),
the possibility of a match between
the DNA profile of MADELEINE and
some of the collected residues
(among which those that existed in
the Renault Scenic that had been
rented by the McCANN couple were
abundant) was raised; a match which,
as can be verified in the
aforementioned final report from the
FSS, failed to be verified, after
the execution of long and complex
testing.
On pages 2461 and following, the
translation of the comments that
were made by the dog handler, during
the inspection actions, was
appended.
Based on the action of the canine
team and the aforementioned initial
scientific approach, which revealed
the possibility of the existence of
a cadaver inside the apartment and
in the vehicle that was used by the
MCCANN family, and in order to allow
for GERALD McCANN and KATE HEALY to
see their position within the
process safeguarded, they were made
arguidos, in face of the mere
possibility of their involvement
with the possible cadaver. During
the questioning as arguidos, they
denied any responsibility in the
disappearance of their daughter.
It may be questioned that KATE HEALY
was not immediately made an arguida,
but rather inquired, as a witness,
and only afterwards, following said
inquirition, did she assume that
quality.
Therefore, the constitution of KATE
HEALY as an arguida was made when
she was confronted with concrete
elements that might lead to her
incrimination, a fact that, within
the terms of the penal process law,
would officiously force that
constitution.
Returning to the description of the
pieces of the process, on page 2294,
there is a note of the delivery of
four (04) photographs, which were
printed by an employee of the
resort, AMY TIERNEY.
pages 41 and 42
Page 4193, she clarified that the
photographs were made on her own
printer, which allowed her to use
photographic paper and cut to size
(10x15), which in this way, reduced
any suspicion related to her
possession, on the part of the
parents.
Nonetheless, before her interview,
the photographs were examined, as
related on pages 4155 and following,
and pages 4197, in which it is
alleged to not be possible to
determine with complete confidence
if the printer is compatible with
the photographs, but it seems to us,
by the laboratory results (merely
indicative) that these photographs
were printed there.
On pages 2305, 3195 and 3212 is the
detailed report, relative to the
laboratory exams done on the
apartment from where the
disappearance occurred, which took
place on 4 May 2007.
On page 2327, is the report of the
exams of the home and some of the
vehicles of ROBERT MURAT and, on
page 2348, the report of the exam of
the car belonging to SERGEY MALINKA,
an individual of interest given his
relationship with ROBERT MURAT, not
having been uncovered, however,
anything of a criminal nature.
On pages 2360 to 2371, is the report
of the vehicles belonging to LUÌS
ANTÒNIO, with whom, also, ROBERT
MURAT had an acquaintance. Nothing
suspicious was found.
On page 2383, is the report of the
exam done in the apartment retained
by the Polish couple and, on page
3230, the detailed report of the
exams done on the vehicle rented by
the McCANN couple.
All of these exams, for now, allowed
nothing to be inferred relative to
the exact understanding of the
facts.
On page 2396, is a file, which was
attributed an inquiry number, which
alludes to a supposed sighting. This
occurrence was duly discarded, after
several diligences, outlined from
pages 2739 to 2762.
On page 2412, is the interview with
PAMELA FENN, who relates several
details, of which, though not
clarifying the facts, are
elucidating. PAMELA FENN lives on
the first floor of the residential
block, above the apartment occupied
by the McCANN family. She related
that, on 1 May 2007, two days before
the disappearance, at about 22h30,
she heard a child crying, which by
the sound was MADELEINE. The child
continued weeping for one hour and
15 minutes, until the parent’s
arrival (she heard the door sounds),
at about 23h45. This witness places
in cause the allegation (by the
parents) of the daily routine of
visits every 30 minutes to check the
children who had been left on their
own.
She also added to the files, that
her niece, CAROLE, on the morning of
3 May 2007, had seen an individual
observing the child’s apartment.
This individual was not identified,
but could have been a gardener. An
interview with CAROLE was requested
in the Letter Rogatory submitted to
the UK authorities, with nothing
relevant having been discovered.
pages 43 and 44
On pages 2426 and following, the
forensics report was attached,
concerning the residues that were
collected on several locations, with
results that did not attain the
desired purpose, which was to
establish elements that conducted to
the author or authors of the facts.
From pages 2771 to 2869, the final
report was added, concerning the
action of the canines and the
searches, carried out by the British
experts.
A new occurrence was explored on
pages 2876 and following, concerning
a crematorium, where according to
the press, the cadaver of the
British minor could have been
placed. The crematorium was closed
and sealed, according to what is
explained in the aforementioned
report.
On page 2897, the copies of the
contract for the vehicle that was
rented by the McCANN family were
requested, and added from pages 2900
to 2937, as well as the registers
from anterior rentals, including the
last user, who was heard on page
2997.
On page 2945 and following, some
situations concerning movements by
the McCANN couple and episodes
involving the press and private
detectives are reported.
On page 2962, the holiday group’s
flight data is added, in its
entirety.
On pages 3148 and following, the
sighting of an individual with a
strange behaviour, though not
substantially founded, who sometimes
was motionless and other times spoke
on the phone from a cabin, is
mentioned. That individual,
according to witness statements from
pages 3150 to 3156, had some
similarities with the figure that
was described by JANE TANNER, page
3157. Nothing was established that
could relate him to the facts.
All the garbage bins that exist in
the Vila da Luz and surroundings, in
a total number of 188 (one hundred
and eighty eight), were searched and
inspected, yet nothing relevant was
found, page 3183.
According to what is documented in
the process, on the afternoon of the
3rd of May, the group, with the
exception of the McCANN family, were
in a bar next to the beach, named
"Paraíso", and the images from the
video surveillance system were
appended, pages 3266 to 3273, which
did not supply any further
clarifying elements.
On pages 3893 and following, several
inquiritions that came from the
British Authorities, and the
corresponding translations, were
added, with an informative
character.
On pages 3922 and 3923, a summary of
the financial situation of the
group, constituted by nine persons,
can be found.
On page 3924, due to the tight
connection with the McCANN couple,
the priest who practises in Praia da
Luz, Father JOSÉ PACHECO, was
questioned, but did not add anything
relevant for the investigation to
the process.
On pages 3928 and following, another
summary of the sequence of events,
executed by the holiday group, was
added.
pages 45 and 46
The report on page 3998 and the
inquirition on page 3459-a refers to
two telephone communications that
were received on the night of the
facts by KATE HEALY, from a bar that
is located in Vilamoura. It was
possible to verify that it was a
common friend/client between both.
In the same perspective that
motivated the appending of the
registries of users of the vehicle
that was rented by the couple, the
appending of the register of
occupants of apartment G5A was
carried out, page 3417-a.
The wife of the Anglican Priest,
SUSAN HUBBARD, was questioned, as
she had a relationship of some
proximity to the McCANN couple,
during their stay in Portugal. Once
again, nothing that can be reputed
as important was collected.
On page 3418-a YVONNE MARTIN was
questioned, who offered some
information, which, despite its
pertinence, did not show any
relevance, pages 3421-a and
following.
Information was collected from a
Spanish detective agency, named "Método
3", which was hired by a British
citizen, to benefit the McCANN
couple. This contact was solicitated
by this agency, and the information
that was given was subject to
analysis and dismissal by this
Police, pages 3434-a and following.
It revealed itself, all of it, as
speculative and without fundament,
focusing particular attention on
ROBERT MURAT.
From the tests and inspections that
were carried out, a biological
residue was collected which
supposedly carried identificative
value. Faced with this, the same
residue was sent to Interpol, in
order to be compared with the
compatible databases, page 3467-a.
Following the aforementioned canine
action, after the constitution and
the questioning under arguido status
of GERALD McCANN and KATE HEALY,
these would end up abandoning the
national territory, returning to the
United Kingdom, where the remaining
elements of the group already were.
From this moment on, it became
necessary to request from the
British authorities the performance
of a set of diligences, that had the
purpose of helping to clarify the
facts and to establish what type of
crime had been committed, as well as
the responsibility of the
corresponding authorship, pages
3528-a and following.
Therefore, from page 3705-a to page
3792-a the Rogatory Letter is
appended, that was elaborated by the
Public Ministry, based on what had
been reported by the Polícia
Judiciária, and from page 3795-a to
page 3822-a, a second rogatory
letter, this time elaborated the
solicitation of arguidos GERALD
McCANN and KATE HEALY.
From pages 3928 until 3931 the
statements from a witness, who
helped during the searches for the
child and who decided to give a
voluntary statement, were appended.
It did not point out anything of
substantial relevance.
From pages 3932 to 3937, another
witness alleged that she had seen
GERALD McCANN, in Avenida
Descobrimentos, in Lagos, near an
ATM terminal, at around 2.26 p.m. on
the 7th of May 2007. According to
the witness, the father of the minor
was talking on the phone, saying
"don’t hurt Madeleine, please". She
was not peremptory in affirming that
it was GERALD McCANN. It seems
unlikely to us that it was GERALD,
given the fact that on that day, he
only activated antennas in Praia da
Luz, adding to the fact that, at
around 2.16 p.m., he activated an
antenna in the centre of Praia da
Luz, which we consider to make it
impossible that he was present in
Lagos ten minutes later.
pages 47 and 48
On pages 3943 and forward, is the
request for a comparison of the DNA
for MADELEINE McCANN, with the
genetic profile of a child's cadaver
found on the coast of the USA,
victim of a homicide. It was
verified that they were
incompatible.
From page 3948 to 3964 an intercalar
report was elaborated, giving an
account of the diligences meanwhile
performed and the results obtained,
as well as explanations of the same.
* * *
Now in an advanced phase of the
investigation, pages 3965 to 4113,
there arises, related to the private
investigation developed by the
McCann couple, and publicly
announced by their spokesman,
CLARENCE MITCHELL, the alleged
existence of a suspect, which,
supposedly, was undertaking a
collection in Praia da Luz, at the
time of the disappearance. A fotofit
was created of this individual by a
witness – GAIL COOPER – who saw him,
page 3979.
From the beginning and immediately,
this was compared with the photo-fit
from JANE TANNER, and despite hers
not having a face, page 3977, she
alleged they were the same person,
with an approximately 80% certainty.
In order to assess the credibility
of the description and of the
drawing, it is important to
highlight that the witness GAIL
COOPER, was heard for the first time
and in a very detailed fashion
[emphasis in the report], by the
British authorities (see page 3982),
then affirming that she saw this
person only one time [emphasis in
the report], in a collection done at
the door of the residence she was
occupying during her holidays.
However, a few months later, in a
new deposition, the same witness
affirms that she saw this individual
three times [emphasis in the report]
(one of which he was watching, in a
strange way, the children at the
Paraíso Restaurant), during her stay
in Luz, information which she did
not supply at the time of her first
deposition to the police in the UK.
With the publication of this
portrait, a myriad notices about
sightings of this individual arose,
most from the UK, but also from
Portugal (see pages 4130).
All of this information received due
treatment and evaluation in regards
to credibility, of which nothing has
come until now, in spite of
innumerable persons approached,
supposedly of similar appearance
with the "suspect".
pages 49 and 50
Apart from other investigative
actions, said persons were
photographed and their mobile phones
crossed with the antennas that were
activated in Vila da Luz, during the
period that is comprehended between
the 2nd and the 4th of May 2007,
without any connection resulting
from it.
On page 4116, a situation that was
related to an individual who had
been referenced for sexual abuse of
minors was explored, whose inquiry
was under process in this
Department. There was no information
whatsoever concerning his
involvement in the present
investigation, yet, as it referred
to a sexual crime against minors,
several diligences were carried out,
whose result, for this case, was
fruitless.
On pages 4147 and following, an
information was received, and duly
taken care of, concerning a new
supposed sighting of MADELEINE
McCANN. It was once again verified
that it was a child that resembled
her.
On pages 4163 to 4165, the situation
that involved the abduction and
murder of a minor of gipsy
ethnicity, in the city of Huelva,
Spain, was considered and duly
correlated with the disappearance of
MADELEINE McCANN. After several
contacts were established with the
investigation that was ongoing in
the neighbouring country, it was
concluded that the occurrences are
disparate among themselves.
From pages 4167 to 4182, the
forensics report from the National
Institute for Forensic Medicine was
appended, whose conclusions do not
allow for significant advances in
the investigation, but which
identify several different
haplotypes, some of which match
intervenients in the process and
others without any identificative
value.
Immediately, the question concerning
the differentiating value of some
haplotypes [haplotype (Greek haploos
= single) is a combination of
alleles at multiple loci that are
transmitted together on the same
chromosome] was raised, namely
concerning JANE TANNER, page 4175,
which was located in a residence in
Burgau, which, in our understanding,
would not be viable and logical, or
to say the least, would be very
strange. Therefore, in order to
clarify this situation, a
clarification was requested from
that Institute, pages 4320 and
following, which, in its reply, is
peremptory in stating that there are
haplotypes that are identical among
each other, in a percentage that is
still significant, pages 4325 to
4328. This means that the hair that
was found inside that residence,
while possessing the same haplotype
as JANE TANNER, belongs to someone
else.
Still within the area of collection,
treatment and analysis of residues,
the identification of a stain on the
cover of one of the beds in
MADELEINE’s bedroom (not the one she
slept in), which raised some
suspicions, should be pointed out.
Duly analysed, the stain configured
a biological residue (saliva) that
belonged to a child – CHARLIE GORDON
– that had been on holidays, earlier
and with his parents, in the same
apartment.
On pages 4200 and following and
pages 4204 to 4212, two events were
reported, which once again, were
subject to treatment, and their
importance to the ongoing
investigation was immediately
dismissed.
* * *
pages 51 and 52
Summarising the diligences that are
reported in the process and that
were carried out or coordinated by
the PJ, the following should be
mentioned:
- de factum preservation of the
location (despite the fact that it
had already been rummaged by
countless persons), several
collections and exams on the
existence of possible residues, as
well as a circumstantiated
photographic report;
- installation, within the first 24
hours, of an extensive operational
scheme, including the participation
of several police forces and civil
protection services, in a total of
over 130 elements;
- reinforcement, within the next 24
hours, of said operational scheme,
with the mobilization of over 300
elements from police forces and
public entities;
- the operational mechanism that was
implemented on the terrain included,
among others, and as soon as
possible, the installation of posts
to control the roads and the
southern terrestrial frontier with
Spain, the usage of canine detection
teams, the usage of exceptional
search and rescue means – aerial,
terrestrial and maritime -, alerts
and broadcasts all over the country
and abroad. Just as an example, it
is mentioned that during the
following weeks and in permanence,
two helicopters, four ships and
several off-road vehicles were used,
apart from airplanes and private
ships;
- in the same manner, the
investigative operations were
coordinated with the specific search
operations, and hundreds of
diligences were carried out, like
the identification and hearing –
both formally and informally – of
citizens, the execution of
door-to-door searches in the
residences and tourist resorts of
Vila da Luz and surrounding areas,
the identification and search of
vehicles, and searches on the
terrain, in an area that was
initially of 15 square kilometers,
and then was progressively enlarged
until 30 square kilometers (where
special attention was given to
locations like wells, passages,
tunnels, dams and lakes);
The magnitude of this operation
exceeded, right from the first
moment, the dimension that is
commonly used in similar cases, a
fact that was made public, having
been notoriously and widely
publicized by the media.
On the following days, over 700
persons that might possess any
relevant information about the
disappearance were formally and
informally questioned, the PJ having
used, for that task, over 100
employees from several departments
in Portimao, Faro and Lisbon, which
worked on a consecutive basis of 24
hours per day.
Equally, all the locations where
images that could be related to the
case might exist, were consulted
(like, for example, restaurants and
petrol stations) and telephone lines
from the permanent services of the
departments in Faro and Portimao
were made available, and a mobile
police post was installed in Vila da
Luz for the collection of
information.
Beyond the already mentioned
identifications and domiciliary
door-to-door searches, the
identification, contact and
interview with known suspects in the
area that had previously been
connected to sexual criminality over
minors was carried out.
pages 53 and 54
Also, regarding the missing child's
parents, the PJ was careful to
schedule periodic meetings with them
and to designate an Official Liaison
to the family as support for a
permanent relationship, with the
accompaniment and active
collaboration of the Royal British
Consulate in Portimao.
Shortly after the beginning of the
investigation, continuous
relationships were created with the
Leicestershire Constabulary which
sent, in support, various of their
members to Portugal, having,
equally, the PJ sending employees to
the UK.
It is emphasized, specifically, that
the level of cooperation and of
understanding between the PJ and the
Leicestershire Constabulary
achieved, always, very high levels,
united in the common pursuit of the
missing child and the truth.
As such, the Portuguese authorities
engaged an enormous and expensive
panoply of technical and human
resources, in the attempt to
discover the missing child and the
understanding of the explanation of
the disappearance.
The PJ never disregarded any
information or credible elements –
as will be seen in this criminal
process – that could have led to the
realization of the disappearance,
and there have been completed,
during these months, more than 2000
diligences, formal and informal, in
this regard.
As an example, we refer to the
international cooperation,
especially with Spain, the
Netherlands and the UK which led to
the detention and identification of
individuals who tried to introduce
deceptive information about the
hypothetical destination or location
of the child.
All of the information with any
major or minor level of credibility
was explored, nationally and
internationally, by the PJ, with
special relevance given to dozens of
supposed sightings or localizations
of the child, most of which, in
fact, were widely publicized in the
press.
The PJ, as in probably no other
investigation in Portugal, withheld
no effort, in the sense of providing
exceptional technical means,
manpower and financing towards the
discovery of the child and the
determination of the truth of the
facts, having been completely
accompanied in this effort by the
Leicestershire Constabulary, the
police department headquartered in
the city of Leicestershire, from
where most of the elements of the
holiday group are from.
As another example, just the
scientific exams alone cost many
tens of thousands of euros.
Addressing now, and specifically,
the question relative to the
diligence known as the
"reconstitution of the facts"
(Article 150º of the Penal Process
Code), which was not performed due
to the refusal of some of the
integral members of the holiday
group to return to our country (as
documented in the Inquiry), the same
would have clarified, duly and in
the location of the disappearance,
the following extremely important
details, amongst others:
pages 55 and 56
. The physical, real and effective,
proximity between JANE TANNER,
GERALD McCANN and JEREMY WILKINS, at
the moment when the former passed
them, and which coincided with the
sighting of the supposed suspect,
carrying a child. It results, from
our understanding, as unusual that
neither GERALD McCANN nor JEREMY
WILKINS did not see her, nor the
alleged abductor, despite the small
dimensions of the space;
. The situation that concerns the
window of the bedroom where
MADELEINE slept, together with the
twins, which was open, according to
KATE. It would be necessary to
clarify whether there was a draft,
due to the fact that movement of the
curtains and pressure under the
bedroom door are mentioned, which
would eventually be clarified
through the reconstitution.
. The establishing of a timeline and
of the effective checking of the
minors that were left alone inside
the apartments, given the fact that,
believing that said checking was as
tight as the witnesses and the
arguidos describe it, it would be,
to say the least, very difficult
that the conditions were reunited
for the introduction of an abductor
in the residence and the posterior
exit of said individual, with the
child, namely through a window with
little space. It is added that the
supposed abductor could only pass
that window holding the minor in a
different position (vertical) from
the one that was visualized by
witness JANE TANNER (horizontal).
. What happened during the time
lapse between 5.30 p.m. (the time at
which MADELEINE was seen for the
last time by a person that differs
from her parents or siblings) and
the time at which the disappearance
is reported by KATE HEALY (at around
10 p.m.).
Concerning the result of the
diligences that were requested from
the British authorities, as earlier
mentioned, despite the fact that
they were almost completely carried
out, nothing new was added to the
process and, consequentially, to the
investigation.
The questioning of the holiday group
merely corroborated what had already
been established during the
investigation, without any detail
that could have been reputed as
especially relevant being brought
forward.
In conclusion, it results from
everything that has been done,
despite the efforts that were made
and all investigation lines being
explored, that it is not possible to
obtain a solid and objective
conclusion about what really
happened that night, and about the
present location of the missing
minor.
On the other hand, it should be
referred that this investigation
moved itself under conditions of
exceptional media exposure, with the
publication of many "news" of
imprecise, inexact or even false
contents, which did not help, in the
least, the discovery of the truth
and created, many times, a climate
of unusual commotion and of lack of
serenity.
Therefore, as we do not envision, at
the present moment, the execution of
any other diligence within the
process that might produce any
useful result for the process, I
submit it to your consideration, for
you to determine whatever you may
see as convenient.
page 57
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Portimao, 20th of June 2008
The Inspector
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