Unless, of course the chef was correct;
A few minutes later, when it was around 21H20, he heard some clamour, which made him leave toward the restaurant, a few meters away, and was then informed that a child had disappeared. Given the importance of this, believed that he should be in the surroundings. At that moment, he did not leave the area of the restaurant, and did not have the opportunity to check if the vehicle mentioned before was situated in the same location;
. Later, at around 21:40, he left the restaurant passing through the same esplanade where moments before, he had seen the same table occupied by the three couples, empty, who had left in the meanwhile various items, principally clothing. He was told by his colleagues that the child who had disappeared was a child of one of those couples;
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They all got times mixed up, G. It was a panicky time for all.
22.15 approx (29) Alexandre da Luz Oliveira
He served Russell and shortly thereafter, he was alerted to strange movements in the restaurant perimeters. He refers to the movements of two men from said group—David Payne and Matthew, who appeared to be searching the gardens the areas near the bar. The witness went to the esplanade zone and saw that the table that had previously been occupied by nine adults was now occupied only by the older woman, called Dianne Webster. It was also at this time that he saw that Russell’s food was only half eaten and that the others had all finished their dinner.
David Payne and Matthew were nervously searching the area.
The witness went to them, he does not remember which one, and asked what was happening. One of them responded to the witness in English stating “GIRL IS MISSING”—that a child had gone missing. After a few moments, around 5 or 10 minutes, he heard screaming from the apartment zone and saw a woman on the balcony of 5A. He did not understand what she was saying. As it was night, and given the distance from the Tapas bar to the apartment, he was not able to determine if there was someone else next to the woman on the balcony. At that moment his colleague, Joe, met up with him and asked the witness to call the police, and that a child has gone missing and could not be found. Immediately afterwards, Joe left toward the street. He does not know who gave this information to Joe but the witness (or his colleague who believes the witness did so)called the reception asking them to inform the police.About 22.15?
http://themaddiecasefiles.com/topic9.htmlI believe this would have been Joe who ran out into the street and called Helder from the other restaurant asking him to phone the policeat
http://themaddiecasefiles.com/topic9-130.html22.20-22.30 (33) Jeronimo Tomas Rodrigues Salcedas Referring to the day of 3rd May when Madeleine disappeared, the witness says that he was working.
At that time, at about 22.20 – 22.30
he noticed that there was only one person sitting at the group’s table, the oldest of them and he asked her jokingly whether they had left her alone.
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