OFFICIAL INQUIRY FILES and DOCUMENTS
STEFAN KOTSEV TODOROV

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

WAITER 08 MAY 07

723 to 725 Witness statement of Stefan Kotsev Todorov 2007.05.07
03-Processos Vol III Pages 723 - 725

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Witness Statement

Date: 2007/05/07

Stefan Kotsev Todorov


Occupation: Car painter/ Waiter


Place of Work: Oficina Vasco da Gama Lagos & Ocean Club

Has worked at the OC since 31/03/2007 part-time, he works four hours a day as a waiter. He works every day from 20.00 - 24.00 and has Sundays off.

As a waiter he always begins work at the Club's swimming pool, tidying the chairs around the pool and collecting the rubbish bags. Then he goes to the restaurant kitchen where he begins to do the washing up and tasks connected with the preparation of meals.

He does not have contact with the restaurant's clients, from the moment he enters the kitchen he remains there until the restaurant is closed at 24.00. He only has contact with clients and sees them when he is doing his rounds of the pool.

The previous year he also worked at the OC restaurant for a period of six months, doing the same work.

He regularly works as a car painter in the Vasco da Gama office in Lagos. He has worked there for almost one year. He begins work at 09.00 and finishes at 18.00, on Fridays he works from 08.30 to 18.30 and for the other days of the week except for Saturdays and Sundays, he works from 08.30 to 18.00.

He has been in Portugal since November 2002, always working in the Algarve and resident in Lagos, two and a half years ago he moved house to Almadena - Lagos.

He knows what happened in the OC with regards to the disappearance of the small girl, having heard about it from other restaurant employees on the day it occurred.

On 03/05/2007 he was working in the kitchen carrying out the functions described previously, he did not know whether the parents were inside the restaurant or at what table, all the information he received was from colleagues who were outside.

He did not see or hear anything strange during the days preceding the disappearance.

He said that one week before the incident, there had been a robbery (assault) in a room in the lots next to the restaurant, a fact he knows from his colleagues.

He does not tend to walk around the OC as he does not have much time because he has two jobs.

He did not know of the girl or her family prior to the disappearance, only seeing photos in the press.

He does not know anything about the disappearance or have any information.


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