PJ Investigation Fact-Finding Report 10-09-07

01-11 p01-14 Report: Investigation Analysis 10-09-07

02-09 Outros Apensos 02 File 09 pages 01-11

SUBJECT: NUIPC 201/07.0GALGS: Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
1.0. This report is based on a time line (resulting from the depositions made to the Policia Judiciara and the 'Control Risk' by five elements of the G9, the manager of the clients support Service of Mark Warner's and by other witnesses, having a text been performed by the British analyst) and several Communications chronograms, both elaborated and sent by the Analysis Sector of the British Police that, within the police cooperation act, was in Portugal.
1.1. All the elements were analyzed and checked by this BCAI, where only one or another discrepancy was detected (between the 1st and 2nd statements of some elements of the G9)

OBJECTIVE:
2.1.Based on the traffic of SMS and phone calls, done and received, registered on the BTS (Vodafone, TMN and Optimus) that cover the area of Praia da Luz, produced by the identified mobile phones of the G9, since 07:30h of the 02/05/07 to the 24:00h of the 04/05/07, to check the testimonies and the relations between the users and others.

HISTORIC
3.1. On May, 28th , 2007, coming from the Uk, arrived at the Ocean Club on Praia da Luz ' Lagos, four British couples and the mother of one feminine element of those.

3.2. The travelling and the staying of the group was organized in the Uk through the Mark Warner's Agency, the same that on the previous year had organized a travel to Greece.
The returning should occur on May the 5th.
Every couple had children with ages below 4.

COMPOSITION OF THE GROUP:4.1. Gerald McCann + Kate Healy = Madeleine (4 year old) and the twins Sean and Amelie (2 year old)
Russell O'Brien + Jane Tanner = Ella (3 year old) and Evie (1 year old)
Mathew Oldfield + Rachael Mampilly = Grace (x)
David Payne + Fiona Payne + (Dianne Webster) = Scarlett (1 year old) and Lilly (3 year old)

INFORMATION
5.1. The Place:
The apartment of the McCann at the Ocean Club is situated on the ground floor, on the East side of the building and can be accessed:
5.2. Through the front door, the same where it is situated the window of Madeleine and the twin's bedroom (photos on page 12)
5.3. Through the two glass doors, in the living room and another in the bedroom of the couple, on the opposite side of the apartment, doors that lead to a veranda, that can be accessed by a step of stairs through a small gate, coming from the lateral street. NOTE: this last access was the one most used for being closer to the restaurant.
5.4. The living room door used to remain closed but not locked, in order to be opened from the exterior.

Routines:
6.1. In a general manner the days passed at the Ocean Club by this group of friends and their sons obeyed to the following routine:
6.2. The children had their breakfast with the parents;
6.3. Once the meal was finished, they were taken to the local mini-clubs where they developed the recreational activities according to their ages;
6.4. At lunch time they returned to the parents company, at the end of which they returned to the same clubs;

6.5. During the morning and on the afternoons after leaving the children at the Kid Clubs, the parents involved into several recreational activities, namely tennis, jogging, reading, etc.;
6.6. At around 18:00h the parents went to fetch the children;
6.7. Between 19:30/20:00h, after the bath and dinner, they put them to bed/sleep;
6.8. Except on the first day, this group of friends dined at the tapas, close to the pool of the Ocean Club, where they reserved a table for nine persons;
6.9. The dinner started at around 20:30h/21:00h and prolonged until 24:00h;
6.10. By the inexistence or lack of knowledge of the parents about a supervising service for children over the period of the dinner, they took turns on supervising going to the apartments every half an hour, approximately;
6.11. This supervising was developed either by the parents or by the other, in this last case, just passing by the windows of the rooms and listening if there were cries;

THE DEPOSITIONS/DECLARATIONS
7.1. On the night of May 3, at 20:30h, the McCann were the first to arrive at the 'Tapas' restaurant. The other elements of the group kept arriving until 21:00h.
7.2. At 21:00h Mathew went to see his daughter. He listened close to rooms of the rest of the children and everything was calm.
7.3. At 21:05H/21:10H Gerald went to check his children. He entered through the sliding door and found it strange that the children's bedroom door was slightly more opened than when they went out. But he assumed that Madeleine had gotten up and gone back to bed.
7.4. He saw that Madeleine and the twins were in their beds, quiet.
7.5. He went to the bathroom and got out through the sliding doors. On the street, close to the gate, he met Jez, known from the tennis, with whom he spoke for 3 to 5 minutes.
7.6. At that moment (21:15h) coming from the restaurant to check her children, Jane passed by them.
7.7. She says that at that moment she saw, up the street, on the perpendicular, at about 10 meters, a man crossing carrying a child (see map and photo pages 50/51).
7.8. The child was in pyjamas and without shoes, but she only found strange the fact that she wasn't covered.

7.9. Only later, after learning about the colours of the pyjamas, Jane concluded that the child she says she saw held by the man could be Madeleine.
7.10. She didn't notice if the shutters of Madeleine's bedroom window were up or down.
7.11. Neither Gerald nor Jez noticed Jane's passage, nor did they see the man carrying the child.
7.12. At 21:30h Mathew got out of the 'Tapas' to go check his children. He told Kate that he would control her children also.
7.13. He entered 5A by the living room sliding door.
7.14. He found that in Madeleine's room, where the twins were also staying, there was more light than normal, it seemed that the shutters were lifted.
7.15. He didn't take notice and just looked into the room through the semi opened door.
7.16. He says that he saw the twins in their cots and that everything was calm.
7.17. Because Madeleine's bed was standing to the closest wall he was unable to see her.
7.18. At 22:00 Kate went to the apartment.
7.19. She went through the sliding doors and immediately noticed that the door to the children's bedroom was totally opened, the window was opened, the shutters raised and the curtains opened to the sides.
7.20. The twins were sleeping in their cots but Madeleine had disappeared.