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Trainee Receptionist |
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789 to 791 Witness statement
of Elisa Angela Dias Romao
2007.05.09 |
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Name: ELISA
Angela Dias Romao, Funcionario
Position: Trainee Receptionist
Place of work: Luz Ocean Club -
Praia da Luz, Lagos.
She states that she is present in
her capacity as a witness. Deponent
is an employee of the Luz Ocean
Club, LOC, under a contract, works
at the receptions of the Garden Club
and the Club (where the Millenium
restaurant is located). This is the
second season she works for the LOC,
always in the same job. Her days off
are Sundays and Mondays.
Regarding the facts under
investigation, the deponent says
that she became aware of same on the
following day, that is on the
Friday. In the morning, when she
arrived to work at the Club, she
heard somebody say that an English
child had disappeared the night
before, and that at that time nobody
knew anything of her whereabouts.
Regarding the other elements that
she established later, the deponent
states that she learned of these
through the media and from other
comments made by guests. She thinks
that nobody knows what really
happened.
With respect to the group made up by
the couple, the missing child and
her two siblings, whom she later
found out were twins, the deponent
remembers having seen them at the
"Garden Club", where the pool and
the Tapas restaurant are located.
They seemed to be a normal family,
like all couples in the group, and
she never saw any strange or
suspicious details.
The deponent clarifies that she
worked at the reception of the
“Garden Club” on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, including lunch time.
She recalls seeing the couple and
their three children leaving the
premises, because they had to go
through the reception area to do
this. They went in the direction of
the apartment where the deponent
presumes they had lunch. She thinks
that they always left between 12H30
and 13HOO.---Around 14H00 the couple
returned; indeed it was what almost
everyone having children did, and
delivered the three children to the
care of the nannies. She does not
know if the three were together, or
if they were separated due to the
difference in their ages.
The deponent recalls that the
parents then spent most of the time
at the Garden Club, at activities
such as tennis, and although they
were part of a group of four couples
(the reservation was always made for
9 adults), they only got together at
dinner time.
The couple only left the Garden Club
after the children had finished
their dinner, which was served by
the nannies inside this facility,
and which began around 17H00/18H00.
It was afterwards that they again
left with the children for their
respective apartments.
She recalls that she always had the
idea that when the couples went out
they always took their respective
children with them; she never
noticed any of the children leaving
without their parents.
Her working hours were between 09H00
and 19H00, and she was never present
when the group had dinner.
Regarding the days when the events
took place, she remembers that her
working day was normal and she did
not notice anything strange that
could be of interest for the
proceedings. On this same day, at
around 17h30 she remembers having
left the reception area and going to
get her salary, but she does not
remember having seen Madeleine and
her parents enter the Tapas
restaurant.
She returned to the reception area
around 19h00, when she finished work
for the day; she learned of the
events on Friday morning from a
co-worker.
She does not remember this year
whether somebody entered the
reception and went to the pool or
the restaurant without due
authorization. In any event, on
previous years, namely last year,
several children and adults entered
the premises without authorization
in order to use the pool.
She never noticed suspicious
individuals or vehicles in the
vicinity of the complex. Likewise,
she does not remember anybody asking
about the operations of the complex
or of the children's facilities in
particular.
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