On the 3rd of May 2007, around 22H15, the witness was working during "dinner hour", together with her colleagues Jackie and Amy, when an unknown woman came to them indicating that she was a tourist lodged at the complex and asked them if they had heard about a disappearance of a child, whose name she referred to as "Maggie" or "Maddy"
She advised the aforementioned individual that no one had told them of the disappearance, who she believed by the name given, was Madeleine, also for the reason that Amy contacted via telephone her supervisor, Lyndsay, who informed her that Madeleine had indeed disappeared;
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http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/CHARLOTTE-PENNINGTON.htm
Now you know where Amy was as well. Not at apartment 5A until later.
So are you trying to tell me it was Lyndsay who informed Amy that Madeleine was missing? Well if you think that was the case, continue by showing me how Lyndsey knew this in order to tell Amy "that Madeleine had indeed disappeared"?
Who told Lyndsay? For Emma says she was out in a bar when she was called by Lyndsay at 10:17. So someone had to contact Lyndsay before that? Who was it?
If Amy was informed at 10:15 by Lyndsay and the staff had the the missing child procedures underway by 10:20 as Emma says why would Amy go to apartment and do a further look around the apartment at that late stage?
What does Amy say she does at the apartment?
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/AMY-ELLEN-TIERNEY.htm"She confirms that, on the night of the disappearance she was on duty and immediately went to the bedroom to see if the girl was hiding. She saw that the shutter was raised and that the window was partially open. It was then that she began to look in the wardrobes to see if the girl was hiding.
The first idea that occurred to her was that the girl could have left by her own means, however after checking that the window was open and the shutter raised she asked the parents whether Madeleine's shoes were there, to which they replied that they were, these facts led her to think that Madeleine could have been taken by someone.
However there was a bed against the window, which could have enabled the girl to climb up onto it and then up to the window, the witness thinks it would not be possible as she would not be able to open the shutters and even if she had done so she would have fallen outside as the window is too high for a child of that age to be able to descend without falling.
In reply to the question asked, she said that the back door (porta das traseiras) that leads to the parking area was closed, but she doesn't know whether the front door (porta da frente) was locked as when she arrived both the parents and a female friend of theirs whose name she does not know, were there and that is why the door was open.
After having searched the apartment and verified that the girl was not there, the outside searches were begun."
I read that as Amy was the staff member who confirmed that Madeleine was missing, and only after that the Missing Child Procedures were commenced.