Open trenches on 3 may, as photos.... after they had been filled. I apologise, if this has already been posted.
CONSTRUCTION WORKER 31 MAY 07
External Inquiry Report
Date: 08-11-2007
Place: P da L
Executing Officers: dos Santos, Rodrigo and Ricardo Paiva
Description
On this date at about 14.30 we went to P da L where we personally contacted Engineer Pereira, already interviewed on page 1652, with the aim of being shown as exactly as possible the sites, where on 3rd May there were open trenches for the water, electricity and telephone networks, which were left open without any kind of supervision during the night of 3rd May.
Together with the works foreman, Sr Afonso, we were shown that on that specific date, two trenches were open, one located at Rua Helena do Nascimiento Batista (Photos 1 and 2 shown on the annexed map as Area 1) and another situated in Rua Direita (Photos 3 and 4, shown on the map as Area 2).
Using two pieces of red plastic tubing, the exact site of the areas where the open trenches were situated was indicated (see photos in annex).
Both men told us that the trenches were 1.20 m deep and 0.9m long and various plastic tubes of different sizes were placed within them for the water, electricity and telephone networks.
With relation to the type of soil that was on the trenches in question, we were told that was a rocky soil and that only using machinery would it be possible to carry out any kind of excavation.
But it was stated that after the opening of each trench a “regularisation†process is used at the base of the trench, clearing all the earth and rocks resulting from the digging and immediately the base of the trench is covered with pieces of rock or sand that act as support for the placing of the water pipes and the tubes inside which the electricity and phone cables pass.
We were told that on the morning of 4th May, when work resumed on the trenches, all the workers who were
employed in opening the trenches, including the Engineer and the Foreman, already knew about the disappearance of an English girl from P da L, which is the reason that they carefully checked all the trenches that had been left open on the preceding night, in the eventuality that the girl could have fallen in by accident, however nothing was found.
They say that given the normal procedures followed in these kinds of works, it would be extremely difficult to bury or hide a human body, not only under the trenches in question without the grave being immediately detected by the workmen.
Signed
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