The OC did not inform GNR until 10.44 they arrived around 11pm
The GNR did not inform the police from OC, until much later. so it was only staff and neighbours who were searching?.
Take your pick of the times(different) stated as the police being informed by GNR.
also seems the time of the disappearance is stated as the time (near) when OC made the first phone call.
Service Information
Date: 2007/05/04
To: Criminal Investigation Coordinator
From: Vítor Martins, Inspector
Matter: Participation of disappearance of a minor [child]
It is my duty to inform that today, at around
00H10, officer Patrício from the GNR in Lagos, communicated the disappearance of a female child, aged four and of English nationality, to this force.
According to the GNR officer, the disappearance took place yesterday at around
22H40, in a bedroom of a ground floor apartment at the OCEAN CLUB, located in Praia da Luz, where a family composed of a couple and three underage children was staying.
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NUIPC 201107.O GALGS PJ Inquiries Section : 4th Brigade
Date: 2007/05/04 : Service Information
To: The Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation
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.
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Witness Statement
Date: 2007/11/20 Time: 14H00 DIC Portimão
João Franciso Páscoa Luis Trigo Barreiras
Occupation: PJ Deputy Specialist
Place of work: Criminal Investigation Department Portimão
He is a specialist in the area of Criminology for the PJ and works in the Criminal Investigation department in Portimão.
His professional responsibilities are to carry out examinations at crime scenes, such as detecting finger prints, biological examinations as well as the identification, signalling and collection of other traces. He is also responsible for making photographic reports and sketches. On the date of the events – 3rd May 2007 he was on duty at the Portimão DIC.
At about
00.10 on the morning of the 4th, he had just finished filing a report about a fire, when he was informed that a child had disappeared in Praia da Luz.
He was brought into service together with an Inspector from the station. It was the inspector’s duty to take notes of the services as well as all the information relating to them. The inspector who accompanied him on that date, Vitor Martins, informed him that the case in question was that of the disappearance of a small girl, of British nationality, who was staying at the OC with her parents.
The immediately left for the scene and arrived about 30 – 40 minutes later, at about
00.40/00.50.
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