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PORTUGAL RESIDENT
PROPERTY BUYER 07-05-07 |
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439 to 441 Witness
statement of
George Robin Crossland
2007.05.07 |
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2-Processos
Volume II Pages 439 - 441 |
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439
to 441-Witness statement of George
Robin Crossland 2007.05.07
Date/Time: 2007/05/07 20H00
Manager
British (translated by Robert James
Queriol Everleigh Murat)
Concerning the issue of the process
said;
. Has been in Portugal since 1982,
and is the manager of the tourist
complex, the Ocean Club, situated in
Luz, Lagos (Algarve), since the year
1984;
. That in year prior the
aforementioned enterprise was sold
to a British company called 'Mark
Warner', but the deponent continued
to exercise his functions as
manager;
. Relative to the establishment in
question, the deponent clarifies
that the same offers free child-care
services to families who are guests;
. The deponent states that he does
not know the exact details regarding
the child-care service, but
clarifies that the same functions
during the day, from morning to late
afternoon, and there also is a free
service offered that will watch
children during dinner and where the
parents can leave their children
with infant educators and go to pick
them after they have eaten;
. That at around 22h15 of 03 May
2007, he was alone in his residence,
situated in Lagos, and was contacted
by John Hill, Mark Warner manager
who works in the Ocean Club
establishment and who informed him
that a child, a minor, of the
feminine sex, who was staying with
her family in that resort, had
disappeared and that he was going to
initiate the 'procedure for missing
child' (sic);
. The deponent left toward the local
where he arrived at 22H25 and there
found John Hill and other
functionaries, Silvia Batista, Joao
Batista, the former who is employee
manager and the latter maintenance;
. That when he arrived at the Ocean
Club, he went to the entry of the
pool and the restaurant (Tapas)
areas of said establishment, having
there come across various
individuals in the local, all of
which were participating in the
search for the lost child, and was
made up of guests and other people;.
That at around 22H50, local elements
of the GNR arrived and took charge
of the occurrence, and began to
manage and lead the search
operations of the child missing in
the area;
. That until the GNR arrived at the
local it was John Hill who
determined what to do;
. The deponent affirms that he
stayed next to the entrance of the
pool and aforementioned restaurant,
where he came across numerous
persons, not having, at any point in
time, entered in the residence where
the missing child and her family had
stayed;
. That he stayed there until 04H00
until the next day 04 May 2007 ,
where he returned to his home;
. That on the next day, he returned
to the Ocean Club, at around 08H00,
initiating a set of tasks to give
continued diligence to the search
for the missing child the night
before and became aware then that
the missing child was called
Madeleine McCann, of British
nationally and three years of age;
. Relative to the facts of the
investigation, clarifies that he did
not know nor contacted Madeleine
McCann prior to her disappearance
nor with any elements of her family;
. On the day of the disappearance of
Madeleine McCann (03 May 2007,
Thursday), the deponent clarifies
that he left work around 19H00
toward home, where he stayed, alone,
until the above mentioned telephone
call;
. The deponent states that he has no
knowledge of any type of situation
with he understand to be suspect
and/or other which could directly or
indirectly be related with Madeleine
McCann's disappearance and had
nothing relevant to declare;
. And nothing more said, having read
the statement, finds it in
conformity and signs it;
. The document is duly signed by me
'
C. Domingos, Inspector with this
Policia Judiciaria. |
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