OFFICIAL INQUIRY FILES and DOCUMENTS
CATIA SOFIA DA COSTA

This information belongs to the Ministério Público in Portimão, Portugal.
It was released to the public on 4 August 2008 in accordance with Portuguese Law

MILLENIUM WAITRESS 08 MAY 07

594 to 595 Witness statement of Catia Sofia da Costa 2007.05.08

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Witness Statement

Catia Sofia da Costa

Date: 2007/05/01 (must be a typo)

Occupation: Waitress

Place of Work: Ocean Club

She has worked at the OC for 2 months and works as a waitress in the kitchen of the Millenium restaurant.

She begins work at 09.30 and finishes at 18.00, her main task is washing up.

She heard about the events from the television. It was only two days later (her day off being Friday) that she heard more comments about the disappearance when she returned to work.

She works in the kitchen, which means that she does not have contact with the clients.

When asked, she states that she begins work at 09.30 covering breakfast time, which is served until 10.00. She never saw any members of the group of British guests the little girl belonged to. She does not know anything about the disappearance or know where the apartment was where the family was staying. She says that the Millenium restaurant is a few hundred metres away from the centre of the LOC resort and she does not have to pass through the resort in order to enter her place of work. She has only worked at the OC for 2 months. Because of this she does not know about the functioning of the resort and has practically no information about what occurred there previously. But as far as she knows this is the first time that a child has disappeared from the resort. She has no knowledge of any other type of crime having occurred there – whether robberies, thefts or crimes of a sexual nature. She never heard about any strange situations, never saw or heard any suspicious people or unusual movements by cars.
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