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Offical
Witness Questioning
Date of activity: 2007/05/08 Hour:
16H20 Locale: Praia da Luz
Executing Offical: Maria Jose Ratnos,
Inspectora
Name: GEORGINA LOUISE JACKSON
Birthplace: Norwich Country : UK
Nationality: British Date of birth:
1978/**/**
Residence: Praia da Luz
Post Code: Telephone:
Marital status: Profession: Tennis
instructor
Work location: Mark Warner The Ocean
Club Praia da Luz
Telephone: Fax:
Identity document: CC no 259***840
Issued on 2007/03/01 by Loule-1
Appears
in these case documents as a witness
Due to
the witness being British and not
having mastered the Portuguese
language, the present declarations
are taken in the presence of RJQE
Murat, a translator named in the
official record.
She is
a functionary of [employed by] the
tourist operator Mark Warner,
working as a tennis instructor in
the precinct of the Ocean Club
resort
Asked,
she relates that she usually works
from 09h00 to 19h30 and has her
day-off on Saturday.
Questioned, the deponent relates
that the only tennis instructors at
Mark Warner are herself and her
colleague called Daniel, commonly
known as DAN.
.
The
deponent started to work in
Portugal, in the indicated functions
and place, on 18 March last, having
concluded a contract with Mark
Warner in England with those
conditions.
Questioned, she relates that she
knew the McCann family as part of
her work, since she gave them tennis
lessons, as a couple, parents of the
missing Madeleine, as well as the
other couples who accompanied them.
She
reports that the group iniciated
contact with the tennis instructors
on the 29 April, the day immediately
after their arrival at the Ocean
Club.
The
deponent has the calendar of classes
given by her and by her colleague
DAN to the McCann couple.
.
She
relates it was one of the preferred
activities of the McCann couple in
that they had several lessons
throughout the days and up to the
date of the disappearance of their
daughter Madeleine, it being that
the child also had a class, on
Tuesday, 1 May (10-11h00), that
class [in which] she was among a
group of children was conducted by
the deponent.
.
As for
the parents, she relates that a
first lesson of instruction was done
in the morning of 29 April, it being
that, on that day, they had no more
lessons.
On the
following days the parents of
Madeleine, whom the deponent
identified as Gerry and Kate McCann,
scheduled 16 tennis classes,
together and/or separately, at
different times of the morning or
afternoon, classes that were
conducted by either her or by DAN
depending on their booking calendar.
Questioned about the class times of
G&K McCann on last Thursday, 3 May,
she related that the mother of MBM
had a group class at 09-10h00
conducted by herself; the father had
a group class at 10-11h00 conducted
by DAN.
.
Later,
at 15-15h45, the couple had a
private class, together, conducted
by DAN - and finally, GM
participated in the men's social
tennis event at 18-19h00.
Questioned about whether she had
also conducted tennis lessons for an
individual called Jeremy Wilkins,
who was commonly known as Jez, the
deponent relates that that
individual booked, and attended,
some tennis lessons, but that all of
those had been given by DAN.
She
relates that, as they had group
lessons together GM and Jez had had
some conversations, but she thinks
that it is only because they shared
some classes and that those
[conversations] will not have given
rise to a firm friendship, but
rather to a simple acquaintanceship
as they both happened to be British
on holiday in the same place, both
had small children and they shared
some tennis lessons.
Questioned about the couple and
their behaviour, both between the
family and with the other group
members, the deponent relates that
she never noted any issue between
them, and that the behaviour of
everyone was like any other group of
tourists that take their holidays in
the resort every day.
There
never appeared any problem between
them and other people.
It
being asked of her, the deponent
relates that the McCann couple and
the remaining group members had
often been together, not always all
of them, but the majority of the
people were sociable with each
other.
.
She
relates that they spent most of the
day within the OC resort, in the
pool, also they went to the beach
but they did not use any of the OC
activities there, and they centred
their attention on the developed
activities of the resort, it being
that the couple preferred,
unquestionably, tennis.
All
four couples had children who were,
for part of the day, under the care
of the child care workers of the
Ocean Club.
Questioned, she relates that she
does not know where they usually ate
lunch and that, at dinner time, the
deponent was not at the Ocean Club,
although she had heard that they
dined, every night except the day
they arrived, in the Tapas
restaurant next to the swimming
pool.
Also,
she had been told that, at dinner,
the group only comprised adults,
since the children were in the
apartments, but the deponent never
witnessed it.
Asked
if at some time she was aware of the
presence of some individual who had
watched the group, whether the
adults or the children, she relates
that no, she never had the
perception of any situation that
aroused her curiosity and that
everyone acted normally just like
any group of friends on holiday.
.
Because
it was asked of her, she relates
that she knew about the
disappearance of little MBM that
same night, about 22h20, because she
lives in the same house as another
OC worker and (s)he told her.
Prompted, she affirms that she has
no further useful information that
might help in locating MBM or that
may have led to the disappearance. |
