21 April 2009
Timeline
21H20,
Executive Chef A. E. G. F. P. heard some clamour, which made him leave
toward the restaurant, a few meters away, and was then informed that a
child had disappeared.
at around 21:40, he left the restaurant
passing through the same esplanade where moments before, he had seen the
same table occupied by the three couples, empty, who had left in the
meanwhile various items, principally clothing. He was told by his
colleagues that the child who had disappeared was a child of one of
those couples;
Property manager B. J. J. W. heard about the news
being investigated on the evening of 3rd May at about 21.30 – 21.40 from
P.B., a Dutchman and owner of the Atlántico restaurant, who passed by
the witness near the Baptista supermarket, in P da L and who asked for
his help in searching for Madeleine. He then went to the place where the
events occurred which was at about 21.45 – 21.50. At this time various
local people and MW staff were present. When questioned he said that the
police had not yet arrived and that about 5 minutes had passed.
Dinner
finished at around 21H45 and some minutes passed where waiter R. A.E D.
L. O. looked towards the table but saw no one—his colleague told him
that all the guests of that table left rapidly and abruptly. He
remembers having heard shouts in the direction of the McCann apartment;
Between
21.30 and 22: Fitness instructor/Waiter J. R. S. went over to the table
and joked with (Diane Webster): “They’ve left you alone?” She responded
more of less with these words: “No, they went to see if the little girl
was there.” I responded that I hoped they would find her somewhere in
the apartment. At saying this, I saw the man. Who I knew later to be
Madeleine’s father, running to the pool and to the children’s play area
in the Tapas zone as if looking for someone. It immediately hit me that
after talking to the older woman, that the little girl had not been
found. I offered to alert the workers at the Milenium Restaurant and the
man agreed. He then left again running to continue searching. I believe
that this was between 21H30 and 22H00 but do not remember with
certainty.
approx. 21.55 pm The Smith Family, (4 adults and 5
children) are returning from 'Kelly's Bar', heading north, all spread
out along the street and they pass a man walking down the middle of the
street, carrying a child, with the head against his left shoulder and
the arms hanging down alongside the body, in light colored or pink
pyjamas, bare feet, pale skin typical of British and blond,
shoulder-length hair; the girl is about 3-4 years old, about 1 metre
tall. - The man is not dressed like a tourist; he's wearing cream or
beige trousers, classic cut, of linen or cotton. He is white, 30-35 yrs,
1.70-1.80 meters tall, average build, physically fit, short, brown
hair, with a face that looks tanned. (GA)
M. M. M. d. S. declares
that on the night 03-05-07, she left the apartment at around 21H58—she
remembers the exact time because she asked her friend the time and she
responded after checking this on the telephone in the lounge;
. They
left the building and the deponent and her boyfriend took the Opel
Frontera, previously indicated, which was parked out front of the
apartment, in the private parking area of Block 6 where her friend’s
apartment was located;
. She declares that the night was good with a breeze, and that it was dark;
.
After leaving Block 6, they turned right and after left, passing in
front of the block occupied by the McCanns. She states that she saw no
movement of people, and that in the immediate areas of the blocks she
saw no vehicle with the exception of a small car, that appeared to her
grey in colour, parked close to the window of the McCann apartment;
She
declares further that she mentioned this fact to her boyfriend and that
it wasn’t yet summer given the movement on the roads, and at that hour
movement was nill;
. States that she looked at the exit of the
apartment and that from the flat above the McCanns, she saw light, and
also in from of the apartment, but she could not define, concretely,
where she saw the light when she passed the McCann apartment;
. Next
to the tree, she did not detect any movement of people or vehicles, and
nothing struck her as abnormal in that zone that would have raised her
suspicions;
Receptionist Ocean Club H. J. S. L. was on duty and
was contacted by a member of staff from the Tapas Restaurant between
21.30 and 22.00 who informed him that the daughter of some guests who
were dining there had disappeared. He immediately contacted the GNR in
Lagos, shortly after this the child’s father and John Hill arrived at
the reception and he phoned the GNR again.
Bar chef M. J. d. S.
R. heard about it on that night at about 22.00 when an English tourist
arrived at the Millenium restaurant to ask whether anyone had seen a
lost little girl.
After 22:00 R. R. S. B. and his wife were still
sitting on the veranda in the B. family apartment. They heard noises
downstairs and afterwards found out that a child had disappeared. Gerald
was seen and spoken to by N.B. and R.R.S.B. They heard him calling for
Madeleine when they were sitting on N.B.’s balcony, not far from the
McCann’s apartment. They both went down to talk to Gerald and helped in
the search.
Between 22H00 and 22H30, waiter J. J. M. B. was in
the kitchen, and was alerted, by a colleague, to the fact that a guest
entered the restaurant screaming, and at this point, the entire group
left in a panic; his colleague proceeded to tell him that the
(screaming) individual indicated that a child had gone missing.
about
22.15 Owner of “Duque de Holanda” Bar J. O. W. was working in her bar
when some employee who she cannot identify (but whom she knows works for
Mark Warner) informed them that a girl had disappeared from the OC.
At
about 22.17 Hotel manager E. L. K. received a call from L.J., the
Crèche Manager, informing her that the girl had gone missing. She met
L.J. and the Service Manager, A.T., near to the Tapas Bar and they
initiated the “Mark Warner procedures for the search of a missing
child”.
Tennis coach D. J. S. knew about the disappearance of
little MBM that same night, about 22h20, because he was contacted by a
resort worker having attended and partcipated in the searches.
Tennis
coach G.L.J. knew about the disappearance of little MBM that same
night, about 22h20, because she lives in the same house as another OC
worker and (s)he told her.
22.28 Manager J.H. gets a phone call
from L.J., head of the child care service, who told him about a female
child staying at the resort who had disappeared. This phone call was
made to his mobile phone at about 22.28 on 03-05-2007. About 5 minutes
later J.H presented himself at the resort. Upon arriving at the scene he
saw about 100 people, employees, guests and residents searching the
grounds, the beach and adjoining areas calling out the child’s name.
Head of Maintenance J. C. S. B. was informed about 22.30 by phone by the OC administrator, who had contacted his wife, S.B..
Manager
G. R. C. arrived at 22H25 and there found J.H. and other functionaries,
S.B., J.B., the former who is employee manager and the latter
maintenance; 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;
At around 22h30, after having left the
apartment where she is living, close to the establishment mentioned,
together with two more colleagues, also residents there, whose name are
Leanne and Sarah, nanny K. M. found her colleague Amy. That during their
discussion she was informed that Madeleine McCann had disappeared and
that they were looking for her. For this reason, together with her
colleagues, they also began searching for Madeleine McCann.
Millennium
waitress A. N. d. . heard about the events on the same day at about
22.30 when she was at the restaurant bar where she works, relaxing with
her mother and sister. At that moment, a British individual, a tennis
instructor entered the restaurant, and told them what had happened, and
headed towards the interior of the space where the pool are, looking for
the girl. She says that because she had had some alcoholic drinks, she
was not in a condition to participate in the searches. However, her
sister did take part in the searches, together with her boyfriend.
Just
after 22.30 upstairs neighbor Mrs. F. heard the hysterical shouts from a
female person, calling out “we have let her down” which she repeated
several times, quite upset. Mrs Fenn then saw that it was the mother of
little Madeleine who was shouting furiously. Upon leaning over the
terrace, after having seen the mother, Mrs. F. asked the father, Gerry,
what was happening to which he replied that a small girl had been
abducted. When asked, she replied that she did not leave her apartment,
just spoke to Gerry from her balcony, which had a view over the terrace
of the floor below. She found it strange that Gerry when said that a
girl had been abducted, he did not mention that it was his daughter and
that he did not mention any other scenarios. At that moment she offered
Gerry help, saying that he could use her phone to contact the
authorities, to which he replied that this had already been done. It was
just after 22.30.
Millinnium restaurant employee D. J. A. V. d.
S. stated that an individual, tall and of British nationality, appeared
in the restaurant at about 22.30/22.45, who asked him whether he had
seen a little girl who had disappeared, describing her as blonde and
three years old and that she was probably wearing pyjamas. The witness
and his colleague, M.d.F., replied that they hadn’t, upon which the
individual ran out.
Millennium waiter G. C. C. C. says that when
the events occurred he was working in the restaurant and heard about the
disappearance at about 22.30 – 23.00 from a Mark Warner employee (he
doesn’t know his name, but he is of English nationality) who, at that
moment asked to use a telephone in the bar to make a call as he had
received information about the disappearance of the girl on his mobile.
He does not know the concrete terms of the conversation but he is clear
that something had happened. The employee then left the bar/restaurant.
When his shift ended he joined in the searched with his colleague
Nelson. He searched until 03.00 AM.
Around 22H45, nanny S. B. O.
was in the bar known as ‘Mirage’ together with her colleagues, whose
names are Emma, Shinead, Najoua, Hayley and Stacy, which is situated
close to the perimeter of the aforementioned resort. After returning
from the bathroom, she was informed by her colleague Hayley that a
child, of about 3 years of age, and whom was staying at the Ocean Club,
had disappeared; she immediately, together with her colleagues, went to
the area of a restaurant (Milenium) in the establishment in question
near to the bar they were at and began searching for the missing child;
during the search, she realised, together with her colleagues of the
Ocean Club, others (tourists/owners) were also participating in the
search;
22.45/22.50 Manager J. H. went to the apartment being
used by the McCanns, where he saw that both members of the couple were
in a panic and were shouting that the child had been taken. He always
saw the McCanns together in the apartment they were occupying at the
time, with the exception of an episode when Gerry went to the main 24
hour reception, with the purpose of speaking to a GNR officer
22.50
pm - First call to GNR Lagos precinct (Guarda Nacional Republicana,
rural police); The first call to Police Precinct of GNR (Portuguese
Rural Police) in Lagos, reporting a missing child and asking for Police
help was made at 10.50pm and a patrol was sent, arriving at Ocean Club
12/15 minutes later, according to Lieutenant-Colonel Costa Cabral, Head
of Public Relations of GNR.
About 22.55/23.00 manager E. L. K.
went to the McCann’s apartment to obtain the girl’s description and of
the clothes she was wearing when she disappeared. When she arrived at
the apartment, there was a lady on the terrace, whom she now know to be
Kate McCann, accompanied by the wife of one of her friends, David Payne.
Kate could not say a word, looked very upset and about to cry. It was
Mrs Payne who provided her with the details that she needed.
Head
of Maintenance J. C. S. B. arrived at about 23.00 and immediately began
to search the resort and the beach area, searching in all the places
where the child might be. The searches were carried out by employees
from the Tapas and the restaurant who had just finished their shifts and
by some local people.
Accountant J. D. N. d. O. N. notes that on
May 03, 2007, (Thursday), at around 23H00, at home, in Ramalhete, Casa
***, Praia da Luz, Luz, Lagos, situated close to the OC resort, he
noticed “much movement and traffic that was out of the ordinary,”
outside (vehicles and individuals passing by frequently) for that time
of night. For this reason, he went to look out of his window. Whilst
this was happening, he noticed a colleague, J.C.B. (Head of Maintenance
at the resort) standing next to his house, who told him what had
happened. J.C.B. told him that a child staying at the tourist complex
had disappeared.
about 23.00 hrs, OC guest G. McK. approached the
McCann’s apartment from the bushes at the rear of the apartment. He was
searching the gardens. He did not know it was the McCann’s apartment.
He saw Mr Gerry McCann standing alone in the doorway at the rear of the
apartment talking on his mobile telephone. Mr McCann was looking our
over the swimming pool and did not see Mr McKenzie. Mr McCann was
absolutely distraught telling the person receiving the call that he
feared “she (Madeleine McCann) had been taken by paedophiles”. He does
not know who the person receiving the calls was but presumes it to be a
family member: “I worked my way around the area, eventually coming
around the back of the tennis courts and up towards what I now know to
be the McCanns apartment a couple of hours later. I was looking in the
little gardens on the poolside of that block, I was in the end garden
when I heard a male voice, he sounded distraught his voice cracking with
emotion. I looked to see who I now know to be Gerry McCann stood above
me on the balcony/patio about 3 metres away speaking on a mobile phone. I
cannot recall his exact words but I got the impression that he was
speaking to perhaps a family member or someone he was very close to due
to the nature of his conversation. He said something along the lines of
there being Paedophile gangs in Portugal and that they had abducted
Madeleine. I was so shocked by this, having originally thought that she
had just wandered off.”
After she arrived about 23.00 S.B. went
immediately to the apartment A5 where she found several people inside
the apartment and outside of it. She entered in the flat but soon left
without having spoken with anyone, because she was informed that
elements of the GNR were in the principal reception. She went there to
meet them.
When she came close to the elements of the GNR she found that behind her was
Gerry,
Madeleine's father, accompanied by another man whose identity she
doesn't remember. Then Gerry kneeled down, hit the floor with both
hands, positioning himself as if he were a praying Arab, and screamed
twice of anger, what he said being impossible to understand. Then Gerry
stand up and accompanied her (the witness) and the other man in the car
of the GNR to the apartment A5. S.B. walked Gerry to the GNR car, so he
could deliver the requested documents. She states that she carried out
these diligences, and other diligences, at the request of the GNR
Commander as they used the deponent’s knowledge of the English language
to translate the questions that were asked from the missing person’s
family members, and the answers that were given. She remembers that
Gerry gave the GNR Commander several photographs of the missing person.
These were postcard-type photographs, taking their size and shape into
account. They were actually photographs of the size and shape of a
postcard, and they seemed to be all similar to her.
23.00/23.05
pm - A GNR patrol arrives at Ocean Club (two men); When they arrived
they saw the girl’s father, a friend whom GNR Officer N. F. P. d. C.
describes as tall and blond, an OC employee and a translator who was
also an OC employee, named S.B.. He found it notable that when they were
still at the main reception, the father kneeled down, laying his head
on the ground and crying, at the same time as making an expression which
GNR Officer N. F. P. d. C. did not understand.
Estimated time
around 23.10 pm Both David Payne and Matthew Oldfield were seen by
E.L.K. when she was on her way to the beach, the search area to which
she was assigned by L. J. (child care director and search coordinator).
23:14 Gerry calls Kate (8 seconds)
23:17 Gerry calls Kate (31 seconds)
Estimated
time 23.15 - After hearing about the circumstances of the disappearance
(from the father with the help of translation) GNR Officer N. F. P. d.
C. does not remember whether the word abduction was mentioned, and he
went in his police car, to the apartment, accompanied by the father, the
friend and the translator.
After hearing about the circumstances
of the disappearance (from the father with the help of translation) at a
determined moment GNR Officer J. M. B. R. thinks it was the father who
told the translator that it was an abduction, at least this is how it
was translated. He then went to the apartment, accompanied by his
colleague, the father and friend as well as the translator. When he
arrived at the apartment he saw the mother there, who opened the wooden
door, now referred to as the main door. When he entered, apart from the
mother, there were three individuals, one female and two male, whom he
cannot identify.
After the search, GNR Officer J. M. B. R.
noticed a situation that seemed unusual to him, when at a determined
moment, the girl’s parents kneeled down on the floor of their bedroom
and placed their heads on the bed, crying. He did not notice any
comments or expression from them, just crying. He says that at the main
reception the father also knelt down, placing his head on the floor and
crying. He did not hear the father say anything.
After the search
of the interior, GNR Officer J. M. B. R. went to check the area around
the apartments and the Tapas Bar, while GNR Officer N. F. P. d. C.
remained next the apartment, just outside it. At that moment a female
individual, he does not know whether she was a member of the group of
friends, who was in the neighbouring apartment, said that she saw an
individual carrying a child, running, and that because of the pyjamas
she was wearing it could have been Madeleine. It was in these
circumstances that abduction began to be talked about. He made a report
about this situation and sent it to the police. This sighting did not
seem to him to be very credible, because when he asked her about the
physical characteristics of the individual, she said it was very dark,
however she saw the pyjamas clearly.
S.B. translated the
deposition from one of the ladies that belonged to the group of English
people, namely one that she indicates as being a brunette. This lady
told the GNR officers, and S.B. translated, that she had seen a man
crossing the road, possibly carrying a child. S.B. found that situation
strange because she was convinced that when she saw this man, the lady
was positioned in a spot that has no viewing angle to the location where
she had seen the man. She doesn’t know exactly where the lady was
positioned when she saw the man passing by, but she knows that she
indicated that she saw him passing on the street that lies in front of
the window to the bedroom where Madeleine was, walking into the
direction of the street that leads to the Baptista supermarket.
GNR
Officer J. M. B. R. found the parents to be nervous and anxious, he did
not see any tears from either of them although they produced noises
identical to crying. He did not feel that this was an abduction,
although this was the line indicated by the father.
S.B. also
realised that from the very first moment on, both Gerry and the rest of
the group members insisted in stating that Madeleine had been abducted,
all of them using the word “abducted” instead of missing, and they all
showed great interest in informing the press about the situation.
S.B.
further recalls that she entered the room where Madeleine had been
sleeping. She now remembers that the door was closed. The inside of the
room was dark. The shutters were down, and light entered only through
its holes. The windows were closed and the curtains slightly open.
Gerry, who accompanied S.B. during this visit, with the GNR officers
also present, said that it had been him who had closed the window
because the babies were still sleeping inside, which S.B. could verify
as true. Gerry mentioned that when he noticed that Madeleine was
missing, he had found the window and shutters open, and the curtains
fluttering.
S.B. recalls that the cots that were used by the
babies were placed in the middle of the room and aligned, and therefore
she found it strange that someone could have taken Madeleine from the
bed where she was sleeping up to the window, because there was no space
to get through. S.B. opened the bedroom’s wardrobe to check if
eventually Madeleine was hiding inside. Then they all left the room, and
someone closed its door again. The deponent remained in the living room
for a while, with the GNR officers, Gerry and the other group members
that were there in a frenzy, going in and out and speaking on their
mobile phones. She noticed that none of the group members, including the
child’s mother and father, were busy looking for her. The mother was
sitting on the master bedroom’s bed, the father accompanied S.B. and the
GNR officers and the other group members walked in and out and spoke on
the phone, apparently concerned about informing the press about the
event.
She thought that the child’s mother was downbeat with the
situation, the father showed his concern and also asked both for the
press to be alerted and for dogs to be brought in for the search.
Concerning the others, she can only recall that Fiona and her husband,
Payne, were hysterical about the situation.
At about 23.30 a
white fair haired man aged about 30, one of the friends of the McCann
group was seen by V. K. and her family when he asked them if they had
seen Madeleine. They were near to the chapel.
23.20/23.30 Manager
J.H. asked hotel manager E. L. K. to go to the apartment the girl had
disappeared from and, on behalf of Mark Warner, provide all the help the
family might need. She went to the McCann’s apartment, entered by the
patio doors and introduced herself to Kate and Mrs Payne. She entered
the apartment living room and Kate and Mrs Payne stayed in the main
bedroom, from where she could hear them both crying.
The twins were still asleep in the children’s bedroom and the door was half open.
A
short while later, Gerry returned to the apartment accompanied by
Russell. They also entered by the patio doors. She doesn’t remember the
exact sequence of events at this time, but she does remember that she
phoned John, who informed her that the police were on their way.
23.30/23.40 A CID team leaves from Portimão to Praia da Luz.
John
McCann stated on MSNBC that at ‘twenty to twelve’ 23.40 pm Gerry calls
his brother John: "I've got crying for help from my brother and I'm
stuck couple of thousand miles away from him. I can't do anything
concrete. And then eventually he just said, "I don't know what to think.
I think some paedophile or some other swine has taken Madeleine".
23.40 Gerry calls Trish Cameron (11.13 minutes)
"It
was my younger brother Gerry distraught on the phone, breaking his
heart. He said: 'Madeleine is abducted, she's been abducted'. 'They kept
going back to check the kids every half hour. The restaurant was only
40 yards away. He went back at 9 o’clock to check the children. They
were all sound asleep, windows shut, shutters shut'.
Kate then went
over to the two-bedroom ground-floor apartment and 'came out screaming',
said Mrs. Cameron. 'The door was lying open, the window in the bedroom
and the shutters had been jimmied open'. "They think someone must have
come in the window and gone out of the front door with Madeleine."
(timesonline 6 may)
Sandy Cameron statement: “On the night of
Thursday, May 3, 2007, Patricia received a telephone call from Gerry
informing us of the disappearance of Madeleine. Gerry manifested all
those emotions one expects from a father who has lost a child in the
circumstances. He was distraught and spoke at the same time he cried. He
seemed frustrated with the slowness of the searches in Portugal, with
the fact that the borders had not been closed, and with the fact that
sniffer dogs were not being used. Patricia and I contacted the British
Embassy to try and help in this regard.”
Hotel owner P. R. W. arrived at the scene of the events at about 23.45, there were already many people and police officers.
23.52 Gerry calls Brian and Janet Kennedy (2.30 minutes)
Barman
Millennium Restaurant L. M. d. S. B. was dining with his wife, son and
friends in a restaurant in P da L, before 24.00 he received a call to
his mobile from the fixed network phone in the Millenium restaurant,
informing him about the disappearance. It was his colleague Nelson who
contacted. He was not asked anything in particular, just informed,
however he felt that he should go to the resort, which he did
immediately, making himself available for whatever was needed. He
remembered that there was great panic amongst all the people looking for
Madeleine. He helped search, remaining at the OC until 05.00, searching
the entire resort. They did not find anything to help locate the child.
at
about 24.00, A. T. was at her desk at the Tapas bar, inside the resort,
when at a certain time, one of the friends of the McCann couple,
Russell, asked for a USB memory stick reader, in order to print
photographs of Madeleine. Immediately the deponent replied that she did
not have an USB reader, but that she had a printer with this hardware,
which could read from memory sticks. She went to her room and returned
to the Tapas with the printer where she printed out 20 to 30 photographs
of the girl, using her own paper, in 10x15 format mentioned previously.
The memory stick containing the photos belonged to the McCann couple,
and came from their camera.
between 00.00 and 00.30, the police
arrived, entered by the main door and went to the kitchen with Gerry.
Hotel manager E. L. K. went to the bedroom where Kate and Mrs Payne
were. Kate was still upset, crying and calling Madeleine’s name,
shouting “where is she?” She also banged on the headboard. At that
moment Hotel manager E. L. K. went to check on the twins in their room
and they were ok. She remembers being in the main bedroom with Kate, Mrs
Payne, Gerry, Russell and David who were sitting on the bed and she sat
on the floor. At that moment David suggested that the press should be
contacted. Russell disagreed, saying they should keep calm and let the
police take care of the situation.
At that moment Kate appeared to lose control, crying and constantly asking “where is she?” whilst banging on the bed.
Gerry
remained calm throughout. On one occasion Kate and Gerry both went to
the main bedroom and Hotel manager E. L. K. could hear both of them
crying.
0.00.27 am Kate calls Sue and Brian Healy (128 seconds)
0.05.00 am Gerry calls Brian and Janet Kennedy (3 seconds)
0.05.45 am Gerry calls Trish Cameron (3 seconds)
0.06.15 am Gerry calls Brian and Janet Kennedy (2.47 minutes)
0.13.14 am Gerry calls Trish Cameron (3 seconds)
0.13.50 am Kate calls Sue and Brian Healy (407 seconds)
0.21.36 am Gerry calls Trish Cameron (23 seconds)
0.23.12 am Gerry calls …. (3.55 minutes)
0.27.07 am Trish Cameron calls Gerry (2.28 minutes)
0.29.37 am Angela Morado at UK Consulate calls Gerry (4.53 minutes)
0.36.21 am Kate calls … (31 seconds)
0.37.05 am voicemail calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
0.38.40 am … calls Gerry (6.40 minutes)
0.39.58 am Kate calls voicemail (34 seconds)
0.40.50 am voicemail calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
0.45.15 am Brian and Janet Kennedy call Gerry (1.18 minutes)
0.45.49 am Kate calls voicemail (31 seconds)
0.47.23 am … calls Kate (2.39 minutes)
0.47.41 am Angela Morado at UK Consulate calls Gerry (2.15 minutes)
0.53.08 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
PJ Officer V. M. M. arrived on the scene at about 00.40/00.50.
At
the scene, there were already some elements from the GNR and some
people walking around the OC grounds, searching for the child.
In the
apartment where the family was staying, there were different persons,
including the friends of the girl’s parents, who were immediately
invited to leave the apartment, in order to preserve the scene.
Inside
the room that was indicated as being that of the missing girl, there
were two children, babies, who appeared to sleeping in two cots placed
in the middle of the room.
A request was made to the OC services
director for the family to be re-allocated and accordingly the babies
were taken out of the room, so that the site could be searched.
The
OC services manager introduced him to the missing girl’s parents, who
looked quite tired and anguished, particularly the mother who appeared
more upset and was therefore less receptive to conversation, which led
the witness to converse only with the girl’s father.
After the site
had been isolated, he proceeded to make an inspection, together with the
inspection and photographic report carried out by Deputy Specialist
J.B..
Deputy Specialist J. B. arrived about 00.40/00.50.
When
they arrived at the scene, which they immediately identified due to the
presence of GNR officers, as well as quite a lot of people who were
walking around the street searching for the child, they immediately went
to the apartment in question, where they found several people,
including some GNR officers, as well as the head of the Lagos GNR
station.
He states that the people inside the apartment and close to
it, entered and left the building and circulated in the whole apartment,
completely freely, in other words, without there being any restriction
or care in preserving the scene. .
He said that these people were the friends of the parents of the missing girl and a lady responsible for the resort called S.B..
He
was shown the room the child had disappeared from, having noticed that
people also entered and left that room without any care in the sense of
preserving traces. Inside this room there were two children, babies,
sleeping in two cots placed in the middle of the room.
It was
requested that the babies were moved, which was done accordingly, the
witness having subsequently put his gloves on to begin the on-site
inspection.
At that moment one of the GNR officers told the witness
that they had already searched for the girl in the wardrobes and other
places in the apartment without having taken any care as to leaving
their own traces or for destroying or adulterating any traces that might
be of interest to the investigation. The witness states that, at a
given moment, the father of the missing girl led him to understand that
he had already contacted the Sky News TV station and informed them of
the situation.
As much the father as the girl’s mother looked quite
worried with the situation and he can even confirm that the mother was
very agitated and out of control, crying a lot and shouting in an
uncontrolled manner, saying in English “They have taken her”. He
remembers that he remained on the scene until about 04.00.
Estimated
time between 0.30 and 1.00 am Two timelines written by Russel O’Brien
on the covers ripped off Madeleine’s stickerbook are provided to the GNR
officers.
Sometime between 0.30 and 1 a.m Kate calls her
parents: "I had a phone call from Kate asking me to contact Father P.S.
He’s a friend of Kate and Gerry’s. Paul married Kate and Gerry and
baptised Madeleine and she needed to speak to him".
Sometime
between 0.30 and 1 am, A.G., the owner of a bar at the marina in
Vilamoura got a phonecall from an old customer: P.P., the human
resources director from a public English organism. She calls him, upset:
"She told me the daughter of British friends of her, who were
vacationing close to Lagos, had disappeared over 3 hours ago, that they
were completely alone and that nobody was helping them to search for
her". P.P. confirms she was at Kate's parents house at the time.
At
about 01.00 Matthew Oldfield was with J. H. (resort manager) when they
knocked on Jeremy Wilkins’s door to ask if he had seen anything. It was
them who told what had happened. Jez did not take part in any searches.
He offered his help but was told it was not necessary.
1.02.08 am … calls Kate (2.23 minutes)
1.16.11 am Gerry calls A. M. UK Consulate(1.57 minutes)
1.29.58 am Phil McCann calls Gerry (3.36 minutes)
At
about 1.30 that morning Kate called Father P. S. in a state of great
agitation. He tried to calm her as well as he could saying that
Madeleine could have had a bout of sleepwalking and that she would be
all right. He remembesr that Kate was worried by the fact that Madeleine
was wearing short sleeved pyjamas and that she could catch a cold. He
felt that only a mother could think like that and say such a thing. He
could perceive the trauma that Kate was experiencing from her voice. He
led with prayers and other situations in his role as priest.
Gerry
phoned him on the same night and he also seemed to me to be quite
traumatised and at the same time very upset and angry. His Scottish
accent, which was normally very slight, became so heavy that his
sentences were almost incomprehensible
1.43.55 am … calls Gerry (3.29 minutes)
Estimated
time: between 1.30 and 2.00 am Hotel manager E. L. K. remembers the
police asking everyone to leave the apartment. She received a call from
John informing her that he had arranged for another apartment for the
McCanns. She went to reception and helped Lyndsey to move the two cots
to the new apartment
The McCanns went to the new apartment and she
remembers seeing Kate and Mrs Payne seated on the sofa, each holding one
of the twins.
S. B. states that right after the PJ’s elements
arrived, the child’s parents removed the twins from the cots where they
still slept, and took them into the apartment on the first floor. At
Kate’s request, the deponent removed the soft toys and a blanket from
the cots, and also took them to the first floor. The babies’ cots were
left only with the mattresses.
2.07.03 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
2.18.29 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
2.20.03 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
2.21.12 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
2.23.27 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
2.27.28 am Kate calls … (27 seconds)
Before
2.30 am (the time he left the scene) GNR Officer J. M. B. R. refers to a
situation when he was searching outside, near the pool, that someone
from the OC whom he cannot identify, passed him a mobile phone, as a
British Consulate employee who spoke in Portuguese, wanted to talk to
the authorities. Upon speaking to him, he told him that the
investigation and subsequent actions were under the responsibility of
the PJ.
about 02.00/02.30, as the child had not been found, PJ
Inspector M. J. P. d. L. Q. decided to contact SEF at Faro airport with
the aim of alerting them in case anyone would board accompanied by some
child, whoever she was and those accompanying her should be duly
identified, however the various calls made were not attended. In the
face of this situation he contacted the Faro Station from the police and
told them what was going on and asked them to alert the SEF.
He also
decided to alert the GNR in Lagos so that they would send out a warning
so that the car and foot patrols that were out on the ground would pay
attention and identify cars with people out driving at that time who
were accompanied by a child (children).
2.38.58 am Lynda and Mark call Kate (9.45 minutes)
“On
the morning of 4 May 2007 the mother of Kate telephoned my mother who,
in turn, telephoned me. My mother told me that something terrible had
happened, that somebody had taken Madeleine. I later sent a text message
to Kate that same night and
I spoke with her on the telephone. She
was hysterical, saying only that she wanted to be able to hug Madeleine.
She was worried by the fact that there were only two police officers in
the place and thought that the police were not helping her with
anything. She continued to speak about Madeleine, of the cold that she
could feel since she was dressed only in pyjamas and continued to look
at the situation from the perspective of Madeleine. She told me that
Gerry was outside to find the girl and during the following day we spoke
on the telephone and we frequently sent messages [to each other].”
2.53.49 am Kate calls Michelle and Jon (16 seconds)
GNR
Officer N. F. P. d. C. refers to a situation at about 02 or 03.00, that
the parents asked for a priest and his colleague had tried to contact
one on his mobile, but did not manage to find one.
Hotel Manager E.
L. K. remembers that on the night Madeleine disappeared, Kate wanted to
contact the local priest, but it was not possible to reach him by phone.
S.
B. mentions that at around 3 a.m. Madeleine’s parents asked for the
presence of a priest on location. They didn’t explain the reason why
they wanted a priest, but the deponent found the fact strange as there
were no indications that the little girl was dead, and that’s the
circumstance under which usually the presence of a priest is requested.
3.05.03 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
3.06.17 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
3.06.54 am Kate calls Michelle and Jon (5 seconds)
3.07.38 am Kate calls Jon Corner (3 seconds)
3.07.57 am Kate calls Michelle’s cellphone (3 seconds)
3.08.33 am Kate calls Michelle and Jon (3 seconds)
3.09.05 am Kate calls Michelle and Jon (4 seconds)
3.10.29 am Kate calls … (10 seconds)
3.20.21 am Kate calls Michelle and Jon (14 seconds)
3.23.28 am Jon Corner calls Kate (184 seconds)
3.28.46 am Jon Corner calls Kate (416 seconds)
Michelle
Thompson statement: “Kate must have tried Jon’s mobile once as we
stirred when it rang at about 03h20. Jon spoke briefly with Kate and
then called her around 03h30. I knew that Kate and Gerry were on
holidays in Portugal. Kate was very anguished and on the telephone and
told me that she had checked on the children every half-hour. It was
around 22h00, and when she went to check on the children she found that
someone had entered the apartment and taken Madeleine from where she
slept; that Madeleine had been abducted. The person must have entered,
passed by the twins and taken her.
Kate continued that when she
entered the apartment via the patio doors, a breeze hit her in the face
as if a door or window was open. When she entered the children’s room,
the window was open, the blind had been forced and Madeleine had
disappeared. Kate urged me to call all the close family and to ask them
to pray for Madeleine. My family is catholic and Kate knew this. Even
though I am catholic, I have to admit that Kate has more faith than I. I
did not speak to Gerry that night.”
3.31.13 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
3.55.21 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
3.55.56 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS
4.03.44 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
4.05.40 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS
4.12.33 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS
4.14.41 am Gerry calls … (01 seconds) SMS
4.15.23 am Gerry calls … (01 seconds) SMS
4.15.43 am Gerry calls … (01 seconds) SMS
4.19.02 am Sue and Brian Healy call Gerry (01 seconds) SMS
4.20.34 am John McCann calls Gerry (01 seconds) SMS
4.22.12 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
Hotel
manager E. L. K. left the new apartment at 04.30 in the morning after
instructions from J.H. She was the last to leave, the police had already
left, but she left her number saying that she was available for
anything that might be needed.
4.31.30 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
4.31.41 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
4.36.30 am … calls Kate (17.27 minutes)
4.52.16 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS
4.55.54 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
During
the early morning in question PJ Inspector M. J. P. d. L. Q. received
some telephone calls from people whom, with the exception of one,
expressed themselves in Portuguese to ask whether an English girl had
really disappeared in Lagos and about what was being done with relation
to this and he informed them that this was true and that inquiries were
being made in order to find her. One of these calls, from the person who
did not express themselves in Portuguese but in English and which was
received between 04.30 and 05.30, was made by someone who identified
themselves as being from the Sky News TV chain and who requested the
same information mentioned earlier.
6.02.08 am Mum mob calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.04.11 am Kate calls Mum mob (0 seconds) SMS
6.05.29 am Kate calls Amanda home (7.02 minutes)
6.08.17 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.18.17 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS
6.34.53 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.35.23 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
6.39.38 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS
6.47.42 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.47.54 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.48.05 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.59.12 am Jon Corner calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
6.59.44 am Kate calls Jon Corner (0 seconds) SMS
07.00
am GNR Officer P. J. F. N. saw the McCann couple at about 07.00 alone
in the street next to the site where they were stationed.
7.06.06 am Sue and Brian Healy call Gerry (01 seconds) SMS
7.09.04 am John McCann calls Gerry (3.26 minutes)
7.15.19 am Gerry calls Angela Morado UK Consulate (4.51 minutes)
7.23.20 am … calls Gerry (5.53 minutes)
7.41.14 am Jill mob calls Kate (3.30 minutes)
7.44.48 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
7.46.36 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
7.48.12 am … calls Kate (373 seconds)
7.51.14 am … calls Kate (1.26 minutes)
8.06.14 am mum mob calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
8.07.52 am Kate calls mum mob (0 seconds) SMS
8.11.35 am Jill mob calls Kate (1.56 minutes)
8.21.21 am Jill mob calls Kate (153 seconds)
8.27.26 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
8.28.30 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
8.29.56 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
8.31.00 am Kate calls Michelle mob (3 seconds)
8.31.21 am Jill mob calls Kate (2.33 minutes)
8.34.09 am Kate calls … (32 seconds)
8.34.19 am Kate calls Jon Corner (61 seconds)
8.34.59 am voicemail calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
8.35.15 am Gerry calls Angela Morado, UK consulate (1.43 minutes)
8.35.21 am Kate calls voicemail (20 seconds)
8.36.03 am Kate calls voicemail (37 seconds)
8.45.20 am Kate calls … (136 seconds)
8.50.27 am Gerry calls Angela Morado, UK consulate (4.47 minutes)
8.51.42 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
8.52.41 am Kate calls Jon Corner (73 seconds)
8.56.15 am Kate calls Nuala (47 seconds)
8.57.17 am Jill mob calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.01.55 am … calls Gerry (1.46 minutes)
9.04.16 am … calls Gerry (1.28 minutes)
9.05.38 am anonymous number calls Gerry (2.12 minutes)
9.09.32 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.09.44 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.09.56 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.10.39 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
9.12.04 am Geteesha mob calls Kate (262 seconds)
9.14.28 am UK consulate in Portugal calls Gerry (3.58 minutes)
9.16.07 am … calls Gerry (1 second)
9.25.51 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.26.03 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.29.18 am Jill mob calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.33.11 am Michelle & Jon call Kate (5.35 minutes)
9.34.42 am Voicemail calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.45.21 am Fiona & Richard call Kate (1.45 minutes)
Estimated
time 9.45 am Social worker Y. M. met the McCann couple next to the
apartment from where the child had disappeared, accompanied by a third
person, a male, who seemed quite familiar to her.
- This third person
of the group appeared to be an intimate (friend) of the family as he
was the one who, when the media arrived, began to explain what was
happening and answering questions, thereby saving the couple from this
upset. Afterwards, she further confirmed his closeness to the family
when she saw him taking care of the couple’s twins, also small children.
-
She identified herself and presented her credentials and immediately
began talking to the mother of the missing child as she was visibly
upset with the situation.
- During the conversation the mother told her that she did not understand why a couple had abducted her daughter.
Because
she found it strange that Kate told her that her daughter had been
taken by a couple, she tried to separate her from the other two
individuals so that she could speak to her with more privacy, suggesting
to Kate that they (Y and K) should enter the apartment, Kate
aggressively rejected this idea and told her that they could speak on
the street.
The witness then asked whether anyone from the Medical
Centre had been with Kate as she was very agitated and needed some
support, she was told they hadn’t.
At this point, Kate told her that her daughter had disappeared 13 hours ago. It was about 10 in the morning.
- However, the third individual overheard this conversation and interrupted Ms. Martin and took the McCann couple away from her.
-
This same individual came shortly afterwards to tell her that the
couple did not want to talk to her any further and did not require her
help—an action that appeared quite strange to her.
- Meanwhile, she
heard comments next to the complex reception that the British Consul was
coming to the site and she decided to wait for this person in order to
offer her help.
- During this time, she saw the third individual two
more times. Firstly, when he was accompanying an older woman and the
McCann twins, demonstrating in this way, the trust that the couple had
in him by letting him take care of their two children. On the second
occasion, he accompanied what appeared to her to be plain clothed police
officers.
--YVONNE describes the third individual as follows:
Aged about 35 years
Of about 1,80 metres in height
Of normal physical appearance
Having short, dark hair
Using graduated glasses of small dimensions with rectangular lenses
Having a round face
Presenting a scar above his eyebrow and on his left cheek
Speaking with a Southern English accent
Wearing light trousers, cream or beige coloured, and a dark polo shirt.
–
When she was back home, following the case on English television, she
saw the same individual and this time, her initial doubt faded and she
concluded that she had seen the face in the course of her professional
activity in child protection, not being able to discern if he was a
suspect/arguido or witness
- She clarifies that she is capable of
making a photographic identification of the individual, and emphasises
that with the identified photo it is possible to access the database of
the British Police and ascertain whether the individual is related to
any crimes involving children
9.46.24 am Jill mob calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.47.48 am Kate calls voicemail (58 seconds).
9.49.50 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.50.23 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.50.38 am Kate calls … (0 seconds) SMS
9.58.53 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.59.20 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
9.59.31 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
10.01.06 am … calls Kate (0 seconds) SMS
10.00
am, 12 hours after the disappearance, the British Consul from Portimão
arrives. PJ tell him all that is going on. He is not satisfied and is
heard talking on the phone saying the "PJ are doing nothing. " (GA)
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on 4 May, the parents authorized the police to look at their cellphones to check for calls made and received:
Kate's phone: no calls made from 27April to 4 May; she received no calls from 11h22 on 2 May until 23h17 on 3 May
Gerry's phone: nothing prior to 00h15 on 4 May
However,
inside Kate's phone there is a record of a call received from Gerry at
11h17, 3 May. But no record of the call on Gerry's phone. It had been
erased. (GA).
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by Kazlux (http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/)
https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t15369-timeline-of-the-mccanns-staged-abduction
