She made the statement on 6/5/2007...not years later...
she recognized maddie from the photo in the pink dress 18 months old ....on the tv...
it was nothing how maddie looked................why was that photo used....
There were the poster images but I doubt if they were the ones on TV. Sky News had one of the photos above on the 4th.
"When she was informed about the disappearance she did not realise which child this was, it was only later, upon watching the television news that night and
after seeing pictures of the missing child on television, that she realised who the girl was, referring to her as Madeleine (the name used by the journalists) remembering only at that moment that she had seen her during the meals provided to the children at the creche, and which take place at the restaurant where she works and during arrivals at the crêche where Madeleine spent the day, located immediately next to the restaurant."
Without seeing the actual pictures Maria Manuela Jose saw we can't be sure.