In her book Madeleine Kate describes coming across a note in the files written by one of the receptionists at the pool reception detailing the group's request to eat at the tapas each night.
'It wasn’t until a year later, when I was combing through the Portuguese police files, that I discovered that the note requesting our block booking was written in a staff message book, which sat on a desk at the pool reception for most of the day. This book was by definition accessible to all staff and, albeit unintentionally, probably to guests and visitors, too. To my horror, I saw that, no doubt in all innocence and simply to explain why she was bending the rules a bit, the receptionist had added the reason for our request: we wanted to eat close to our apartments as we were leaving our young children alone there and checking on them intermittently.'
However I have looked through the files and can find nothing to substantiate that this note ever existed. I can find no file reference which relates to the note and no mention of it by any other witness. Of course we know there are files which were never made public, and which the McCanns had exclusive access to, but even those have a file reference number.
So am I simply missing the evidence available and some helpful forum member will point me to it or was the note never in the files in the first place ?
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