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Processos Vol XIII Page 3421
Date : 2007-11-14
To: The Coordinator of the Criminal
Investigation Paolo Rebelo
From: Paolo Ferreira, Inspector
Service Information
Subject: Expedient related to Yvonne
Warren Martin
In the sequence of the contents of
the service information in annex,
which was prepared by Inspector José
Monteira on 12-06-2007, the
questioning of Yvonne Warren Martin
was twice begun, according to the
files that are also joined to this.
The statement relates in detail her
intervention with the McCann couple
after having heard about Madeleine's
disappearance.
She adds that on one occasion,
because it had occurred to her that
the parents and the friends could
eventually be involved in the
child's disappearance, she wrote an
anonymous letter to the British
police.
The statements given to the PJ today
by Yvonne Martin provide a concrete
clarification of the reasons for her
suspicions, which in my opinion, do
not point to any concrete element
that could, in any way, make other
inquiries directly related to her
statements, viable.
With nothing further to add.
Signed
Inspector Ferreira
Processos
Volume X111 Pages 3422 - 3424
SERVICE INFORMATION
Date: 2007-06-12
To: The Coordinator of the Criminal
Investigation, Dr. Gonçalo Amaral
From: José Monteiro, Inspector
Re: Collection of Information
In the sequence of information
transmitted to this Police force, on
this date we went to the residence
of Yvonne Warren Martin. The team
was composed of the undersigned and
his colleague Carlos Antunes, in
conversation with Yvonne the
following was established:
- On May 04, 2007, at around 07H00
she heard about the disappearance of
an English girl from Praia da Luz,
Lagos, from Sky News or BBC.
- Having worked for 25 years in the
area of child protection, she felt
obliged to offer help to her
compatriots and went to Praia da
Luz.
- At around 09H00, she met the
McCann couple next to the apartment
from where the child had
disappeared, accompanied by a third
person, a male, who seemed quite
familiar to her.
- This third person of the group
appeared to be an intimate (friend)
of the family as he was the one who,
when the media arrived, began to
explain what was happening and
answering questions, thereby saving
the couple from this upset.
Afterwards, she further confirmed
his closeness to the family when she
saw him taking care of the couple's
twins, also small children.
- She identified herself and
presented her credentials and
immediately began talking to the
mother of the missing child as she
was visibly upset with the
situation.
- During the conversation the mother
told her that she did not understand
why a couple had abducted her
daughter.
- However, the third individual
overheard this conversation and
interrupted Ms. Martin and took the
McCann couple away from her.
This same individual came shortly afterwards to tell her
that the couple did not want to talk
to her any further and did not
require her help - an action that
appeared quite strange to her.
- Meanwhile, she heard comments next
to the complex reception that the
British Consul was coming to the
site and she decided to wait for
this person in order to offer her
help.
- During this time, she saw the
third individual two more times.
Firstly, when he was accompanying an
older woman and the McCann twins,
demonstrating in this way, the trust
that the couple had in him by
letting him take care of their two
children. On the second occasion, he
accompanied what appeared to her to
be plain clothed police officers.
--YVONNE describes the third
individual as follows:
Aged about 35 years
Of about 1,80 metres in height
Of normal physical appearance
Having short, dark hair
Using graduated glasses of small
dimensions with rectangular lenses
Having a round face
Presenting a scar above his eyebrow
and on his left cheek
-
Speaking with a Southern English
accent
Wearing light trousers, cream or
beige coloured, and a dark polo
shirt.
- When she was back home, following
the case on English television, she
saw the same individual and this
time, her initial doubt faded and
she concluded that she had seen the
face in the course of her
professional activity in child
protection, not being able to
discern if he was a suspect/arguido
or witness
- She clarifies that she is capable
of making a photographic
identification of the individual,
and emphasises that with the
identified photo it is possible to
access the database of the British
Police and ascertain whether the
individual is related to any crimes
involving children
Bringing this to your attention,
Signed
José Monteiro
Processos Volume XIII Pages 3425
- 3428
Witness Statement
Date: 2007.06.13
Time: 12H00
Name: YVONE WARREN MARTIN
Profession: Social Services and
Child Protection
The witness is accompanied by a PJ
interpreter, Carlos Moura, as she
does not speak Portuguese.
She says that she has lived in
Portugal for seven years on a
part-time basis, in other words, for
some months of the year she lives in
her home in Sargaçal and
for the rest of the year lives in
England, where she still works.
During the past month of May or more
precisely on the 04th of May 2007,
the witness was in Portugal,
enjoying holidays, when at about
07H00 she turned on the television
and watched an English news channel
(BBC or SKY NEWS) where she saw an
appeal to British citizens on
holiday in the Algarve to offer all
possible support to a British couple
who were on holiday in Praia da Luz
and whose daughter, a child, had
disappeared on May 03, 2007.
As she works directly with
situations of children at risk, and
as she was very close to Praia da
Luz, she went there with the
intention of offering her help and
support to the couple, she arrived
there at about 09H30.
She clarifies that she did not leave
immediately for Praia da Luz as she
still had some things to do at home
but left at around 09H00.
At first, she could not locate the
exact site where the family was
staying on holiday. Upon seeing a
police patrol car which passed close
by her, she asked the police if they
could show her the right location.
She was accompanied by the patrol
car to the apartment from where the
child had disappeared and where the
parents were staying.
At the scene, she found a group of
three people, two males and one
female.
She went over to the group and
identified herself.
Two members of that group, a male
and a female, identified themselves
as the parents of the missing
child - the McCann couple.
The couple was visibly upset, and
the mother was crying intensely.
The third person never identified
himself, upon the witness's
insistence the couple replied that
he was a close friend of the family.
She adds that this third person
appeared familiar to her.
Taking advantage of the information
that she had heard on the news, she
began questioning the couple about
how often they had checked on the
children, obtaining the reply that
people would go to see them every
hour.
As is normal and routine in her
service, she asked whether Gerry was
the biological father of the missing
child, to which he replied yes.
She clarifies that she asked this
question because during the course
of her 25 years of service working
with children at risk, it is very
normal that when a couple has child
and where the father or the mother
is not a biological parent, the
biological parent may have a
tendency to come and "get" his
child.
After having obtained the verbal
response from Gerry, the mother,
Kate, questioned what she was doing
asking these questions which should
be asked by the police, who were
already on the scene in large
numbers searching for her daughter,
who had been taken by a couple.
At this moment, the witness notices
that the couple began to have doubts
about her capacity and she
immediately showed them her official
documents and credentials issued by
the British government to calm them
down.
Gerry took her documents and showed
them to the third person and told
him that they were authentic and
were certified by the police.
At this moment, the witness wishes
to clarify that, in England, anyone
who works with children, whether a
doctor, police officer or social
worker, has to have a proper
credential certified by the police
and that this was one of the
documents she showed to the McCanns.
Because she found it strange that
Kate told her that her daughter had
been taken by a couple, she tried to
separate her from the other two
individuals so that she could speak
to her with more privacy, suggesting
to Kate that they (Y and K) should
enter the apartment, Kate
aggressively rejected this idea and
told her that they could speak on
the street.
The witness then asked whether
anyone from the Medical Centre had
been with Kate as she was very
agitated and needed some support,
she was told they hadn't.
At this point, Kate told her that
her daughter had disappeared 13 hours
ago. It was about 10 in the morning.
Meanwhile a fourth individual came
towards the group and identified himself
as a journalist. The witness alerted the
couple to the type of statements they
should give and that it would be better
for them to keep silent.
At this moment, the third person,
who was always near to the couple and
the witness, moved the couple away from
her and the three of them talked in
whispers for some time.
After this, and leaving the couple
behind him, he approached the witness
and told her that the couple did not
want to speak any more with her, nor
with anyone else.
The witness replied to him that if
the McCann couple felt the need to talk
to her later, she would be at their
total disposal.
As she said earlier, this third
person of the group is familiar to her,
and thinks
that she may have come across him in the
course of her work, as a suspect or
witness.
She describes him as tall man,
height about 1,80 m, about 35 years old,
of normal physical complexion, with
short, dark hair, with a round face and
with a scar on the left side of his face
running from the eyebrow to the check.
He uses graduated glasses of small
dimension with rectangular lenses. He
spoke with a southern English accent and
was wearing cream coloured trousers and
a dark polo shirt
.
When asked whether that it would be
possible to identify him from a
photograph, the witness replied yes.
She adds that, after having spoken
to the McCann couple, she spoke to the
resort manager, and after identifying
herself, asked him whether there had
been a break-in in the apartment where
the child was, to which he replied no
but that the door was open as were the
window blinds, which, according to Kate,
should have been closed but were found
open.
No more was said. Reads, ratifies,
signs.
Processos Vol XIII Page 3429
Photographic Recognition File
On 13th June, 2007 at the Portimao
DIC, Yvone Warren Martin appeared
before me, José Monteiro, Inspector,
in order to proceed with
photographic recognition.
When asked, she described the
suspect and she was shown
photographs of various individuals
who made up the McCann couple
holiday group.
Upon visualising the photographs,
she recognised David Anthony Payne,
an individual who appeared in
several photographs, as being the
person she referred to in her
statements and who she supposedly
had known on another occasion.
The present document was drawn up
and after being translated by the
interpreter, will be signed.
Three signatures
Processos Vol XIII Pages 3430 -
3433 or pages 141-143
YVONNE WARREN MARTIN
Places Worked:
1. Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
2. Southshields, Tyne & Wear
3. Newcastle, Tyne & Wear
4. York, North Yorkshire
5. Hull, Kingston Upon Hull
6. North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear
7. Plymouth, Devon
Witness Statement
Date: 2007/11/14
Time: 10H30
Place: DIC Portimao
Name: YVONNE WARREN MARTIN
Profession: Social Services and
Child Protection
She comes to the process as a
witness and as she does not speak
Portuguese she is accompanied by
interpreter Filipa Maria da
Conceição Silva who will translate
all questions and answers into
English.
The witness has given a previous
statement to this police force
regarding the facts in question.
This took place on 13-06-2007 and
led to the inquiry of the statement
that was taken. The witness confirms
the complete integrity of that
statement, everything was fully
reproduced for this file. The
witness was also shown attached page
showing the places of work where she
carried out her professional
activities as Social Services
Manager for Child Protection, having
also confirmed that these were the
cities where she carried out her
professional activities.
She states that in the course of her
contact with Madeleine's parents,
described in detail in her previous
statements, Kate told her that the
child had been taken by a couple.
During the meeting they had, the
details of which are contained in
her previous statement, she did not
have the opportunity to ask in depth
about this question nor about any
other.
With regards to the individual who
was close to Madeleine's parents
when she met them, and who was later
identified as David Payne, she
reaffirms that the same individual
seems familiar, possibly as this
same individual intervened in a
situation related to a professional
activity of the witness. She
clarifies that neither on that
occasion, nor now that time has
passed, can she remember concretely
the place or the situation in which
she may have come to know David
Payne, but that she continues to
think that the same individual is
familiar to her but cannot state the
particular situation.
She adds that her hypothesis is that
she may have come to know him
professionally through work,
potentially having been colleagues
at work or have worked at the same
place but she cannot be certain
where she met him as she does not
remember
She says that about two weeks after
Madeleine's disappearance, when the
police made an appeal for
information about a man, carrying a
child, who had been seen in the Luz
zone, and whose clothing was
described, she wrote an anonymous
letter to the British police,
telling them the following: :
regarding the various details she
observed during her contact with the
McCanns it is her opinion that they
could be in some way involved in the
disappearance of Madeleine.
She first found them aggressive and
their reaction after she showed
Madeleine's parents her credentials,
also seemed strange to her.
Afterwards she was informed that
there were no signs of a break-in in
the apartment. Knowing that they are
doctors she found it absolutely
abnormal that they left their
children alone at home. Associating
all of this with her professional
experience, which tells her that in
99.99 % of missing children cases,
the parents or other family members
are involved, she felt it was her
duty to inform the police of this.
She did this anonymously because she
did not want to be bothered by the
media. But she also states that
according to what she remembers,
when she met with Madeleine's
parents, David Payne, who was with
them, was wearing a dark polo shirt,
blue or black coloured, cream
coloured long trousers, of linen or
cotton, and dark shoes
(sandal/slipper type without a back
buckle/catch). In her opinion, this
clothing matches perfectly with the
clothing the Police described the
man (carrying the child) to be
wearing at the time. All these
coincidences made the witness think
that the parents and their friends
could possibly be involved in the
disappearance of the child.
She declares that one of her main
aims when she wrote the anonymous
letter was for the British police to
check the paedophile or child
abusers registers and whether David
Payne was on that list.
No more was said. Reads, ratifies,
signs. |
