OFFICIAL INQUIRY FILES and DOCUMENTS
POSTERS PRINTED OUT ON MORNING
OF 04 MAY 2007

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

2294 to 2297 GNR delivery letter with information regarding photos of Madeleine

09-PROCESSOS IX Pages 2294 to 2296

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GUARDA NACIONAL REPUBLICANA
MINISTERIO DA ADMINISTRACAO URBANA
BRIGADA TER. No. 3 - GRUPO TER. PORTIMAO
DEST. TER. PORTIMAO - POSTO TER. LAGOS


TERMS OF DELIVERY

On the 25of the month of June of the year 2007, the Territorial Post Commander of the Lagos GNR, delivers to your Excellency Mr. Goncalo Amaral, Chief Inspector of the Portimao Policia Judiciaria, four photographs, two by two in different positions of the minor Madeleine Beth McCann, which were together with the copy of the missing notice NUIPC 201/07.OGALGS and which were given to us by family on the day of the disappearance.--------------------------------

Post Commander

Antonio Henrique da Conceicao Duarte
Sarg. Adjunct


RECEIVED ON 25/06/2007

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POLICIA JUDICIARIA
Department of Criminal Investigation of Portimao
NUIPC: 201/07/0 GALGS
Inspector: Joao Carlos
File no: 002663
27 Jul 2007

Re: Exams

The present investigation deals with the disappearance of the four year old minor, MADELEINE BETH MCCANN, on the 3rd of May of the current year, 2007, in Praia da Luz, in Lagos.

At this moment we have yet to determine more that would point to what occurred in the first twelve hours, after the disappearance was verified and the authorities were handed photographs of the minor for consequent disclosure.

The type of photograph picture frame size (15,3 cm x 10,30 cm, approximately) is not practical to transport.

The investigation solicited examination of the photographs which were delivered to you in order to answer the questions that follow:

QUESTIONS:

1. TIME/COLOUR:
Determine the 'age' of the photographs:

2. PAPER
What machines/printers were used:
a. 'quick print';
b. type of store/commercial centre laboratory;
c. other;

3. CUT
d. If the photographs were cut by guillotine
e. If the sizes are standard

The examination questions have as their objective to determine:
----the age of the photographs, the age of the paper and/or the ink used
----if the type of printer or machine which used roll paper or pre-cut paper with the exact size of the photographs;
----determine if it is possible to 'identify' the machine/printer used for the photographs;
----if the printing was made by a photograph machine or by a PC computer printer;
----to determine, following the collection of details, if the revelation/printer of the photographs were made in Portugal or in another country,
Also to determine other facts/details in the same vein which may be considered of interest, over what was described.

ATTACHMENTS:
--4 (four) photographs, being two photos in each position.
--The photographs represent a minor.

With my best compliments

Chief Inspector

(Tavares de Almeida)

3245 to 3246 Report from Police Scientific Laboratory re: 10 x 15 photographs of Madeleine
3247 GNR statement of delivery of four 10x15 photographs
(copy of page 2294 with handwritten notes)

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Processos XII
Pages 3245 to 3246



POLICIA JUDICIARIA

NUIPC-201/07.0 GALGS
4a BRIGADA


INFORMATION

As regards the entry terms which follow, this police was handed by the Guarda Nacional Republicada (GNR), four (4) 10 x 15 photographs on 'Kodak Xtralife Paper' which were given to that police force by family of the missing minor MADELEINE MCCANN on the day which the facts were reported.

In these photographs is the image of a minor, in all ways identical to the child of British nationality referenced above, in two distinct poses (two by two).

As mentioned previously, these were in the possession of the childs family, which from the beginning, even though there may be an explanation, appeared unusual, as on that night there was no possibility of proceeding with a revelation of the type of paper and the format used.

Thus, we sent the photographs to the Scientific Police Laboratory, conforming with official files no. 2295, and with the aim of answering the questions raised.

Even though we await formal response, we were informed that is not possible to have answers to the questions, specifically, as to what printers) was/were used, when, in what form and where.

Still, in the wake of collecting other elements, we went to various establishments in Praia da Luz and Lagos, dedicated to photography, where we learnt that that type of paper (used in the posters) is not used in any of the locations and which conforms to the report which is attached.
3248 External diligence carried out re: 10 x 15 photographs  

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EXTERNAL DILIGENCE
Date: 16.08.2007
Location: Praia da Luz
Entity which determined the diligence:
Functionary that executes: Joao Carlos and Joao Correira, Inspectors

Description and result of diligence:
On this date we travelled to the location referenced below with the intent of collecting elements relative to the poster style photographs (10 x 15) and which were alluded to in the previous information, namely, the place of its printing, for comparison with the paper.

The establishment FUJI, in Luztur, Praia da Luz, Lagos, proprietor MANUEL SILVA, alleges that he does not use paper identical to the printed posters mentioned above.

The establishment MLT SILVA, situated on Rua Portas de Portugal, no. 23, Lagos'
Proprietor MANUEL SILVA and the diligence had identical results.

The establishment JOAO JULIO, on Rua Antonio Barbosa Viana, no. 20, Lagos 'functionary ENA COSTA, where also they do not use the same type of paper.

The establishment MONTE CLARO, situated on Rua dos Quintais, no. 9, Lagos, proprietor JOAO CARRONDO, and the diligence was identical to the others.

With nothing more to report.

3259 to 3263 External diligence carried out with OC Maintenance Services and photocopies in the OC 2007.10.02

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Date 02-10-2007
Place: Ocean Club
Executing Officers: Paolo Ferreira and Ricardo Paiva


On this date, at 15.00 we went to the Ocean Club where we were received by the Maintenance and Service Manager, Silvia Baptista, and by the Mark Warner director, John Hill. We asked them to show us all the printers and photocopiers existing at the OC, which were operational at the time of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and that were used to print colour copies of Madeleines photo.

Silvia Baptista informed us that at the request of John Hill and his wife D****, hundreds of colour copies of a photo of Madeleine McCann were printed on 4th May 2007 with the aim of distributing them in Pda L and Lagos. For this purpose a colour photocopier, Toshiba, in the main OC reception was used as well as an HP laser printer, HP Color Laserjet 2840 located at a desk at the Ocean Country company, a colour laser printer Epsom Aculaser C1100 located on the desk of the administrative secretary and a colour laser printer HP Color Laserjet 1600 located on John Hills desk.


On his part, John Hill informed us that the printing of large quantities of Madeleines photo was carried out by himself with the help of his wife, at the request of Russell O'Brien, a member of the McCann's group of friends, John Hill stated that the photograph the colour prints were made from a mobile data disk of the 'memory stick' kind that Russell O'Brien gave him on the morning of 4th May.

They both stipulated that these were the only colour printers and photocopiers in existence at the Ocean Club and that there was no other place with the capacity for colour printing.

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