Read the PJ statements Rob.
We are talking about their impression at 3:00 AM on the 4th, What were they saying then at that time. No good reading statements made a week later.
The statement by Vitor Martins is interesting in that respect for he says he wrote it up as soon as he got back to Portimao.
So what did he say on the night?
"From: Vitor Martins, Inspector
Subject: Participation in the Disappearance of the Child.
I inform you that on this date, at about 01.00 Officer Patricio from the GNR informed this police station about the disappearance of a female child aged four and of British nationality.
According to the GNR officer, the disappearance would have happened at about 22.40 yesterday, from a room of a ground floor apartment of the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, where a family was staying composed of a couple and three small children.
The layout of the apartment is composed of two bedrooms, a kitchen, living room and bathroom.
The front door as well as the back door (living room patio doors) of the apartment allow easy access to the public roads.
During dinner the couple would on several occasions go to the children's bedroom, at a given moment in one of these visits the mother realised that one of the girls was missing and gave the alarm to try to locate her.
Giuven these facts and on superior orders, police services were activated consisting of the undersigned and Officer Barreiras, Deputy Specialist who immediately left for the scene and began to carry out investigations.
At the scene, the girl's parents were identified as being:
Gerald Patrick McCann, of English nationality, born on 05-06-1968, holder of passport nș and owner of mobile phone number*****.
Kate Marie Healy, of English nationality, born on 05-03-1968, originally from Liverpool, holder of passport nș **+ and owner of mobile phone number nÂș*****.
They both own the following residence: **** Leicestershire, UK LE 7 /Rw.
The missing child was identified as being Madeleine Beth McCann, born on 12-05-2003 holder of passport nș ******
It is stated that as well the girl in question, the couple have two twin children aged two who were also in the bedroom where Madeleine was sleeping.
In conversation with Gerald McCann it was possible to establish the following:
They had been staying at the OC since 28th April 2007 and they were due to stay there for a week.
From 29-04-2007 he would dine with his wife at a restaurant in the OC whilst their children were a few metres away from the restaurant, in the bedroom.
They would dine at the restaurant with three other couples who were friends of theirs. Yesterday (the day of the events) they got up at 07.30 and had breakfast in the apartment. At about 09.00 they left the apartment and left the children at the creche, this creche was located inside the OC, with employees who would take care of the children until about 12.30.
After lunch, at about 14.30 the children would be dropped off back at the creche and would stay there until about 17.00.
At about 17.30 the parents would bathe the children and give them something to eat and at about 19.30 the three children were put to sleep in one of the bedrooms in the apartment.
At about 20.30 the couple left to have dinner in the restaurant.
At about 21.05 - 21.15 Gerald went to the bedroom to see the children, he saw the bedroom door was half way open which he found strange as he thought he had left it pushed to, however he entered and saw the children and saw that the window as well as the shutter were closed.
At about 21.20, their friend Jane passed by the apartment (along the corridor of the main entrance) she saw an individual carrying a child who passed descending the road, however she did not recognise this individual, nor the child, only having noticed that the individual appeared to be aged between 30 or 40, had dark hair and light coloured trousers.
At about 21.30 their friend Mat entered the apartment by the back door (patio door) he did not enter the bedroom and only saw the twins sleeping, he did not notice anything strange.
At the same place, at about 22.00 Kate discovered the facts and the consequent disappearance of her daughter Madeleine, at this moment the window being wide open as well as the curtains and the shutter.
In conversation with the Director of Maintenance Services of the OC, Silvia Batista it was possible to establish that those employees responsible for the creche were Lindsay Johnson and Stacey Portz and that the following employees (employed until October) were Amy Tierney, Pauline Mccann, Rhiannon Fretter, Charlotte Pennington, Leanne Wagstaff, Susan Owen, Sarah Williamson, Jacke Williams, Shinead Vine, Emma Wilding, Cat Baker and Kirsty Maryan.
The Director of Maintenance Services provided copies of the lists of guests staying in the apartments and of the departures on 03-05-2007 and provided her telephone number for any further information.
It is important to state that when the police arrived at the scene, there were already several people inside the apartment who could have contaminated this space.
It is also important to state that the GNR officers carried out several searches around the apartment in an attempt to locate the missing girl, however these efforts have been fruitless.
An examination of the scene and a photographic report were made.
The parents handed over one photograph of Madeleine.
I bring this to your attention.
Signed
Inspector Vitor Martins"
I don't see anything there that refers to the apartment as a crime scene.
Were there actual samples and forensics taken that night? We are aware of the photos taken by Joao Barreiras, but was there anything else.
