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3988 to 3990-Witness
statement of Antonio
Henrique da Conceicao Duarte
2007.11.08 |
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13-Processos Vol
XII1 Pages 3988 -
3990 |
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3988 to 3990-Witness
statement of
Antonio Henrique da
Conceicao Duarte
2007.11.08
Witness Statement
Date: 08/11/2007
Antonio Henrique de
Conceicao Duarte
Comes to the process
as a witness GNR
officer.
He has worked at the
Lagos GNR station
for 7 years.
That he confirms the
integrity of the
previous statement
he made to the PJ
and has nothing to
add to it.
Upon questioning, he
states that he
arrived at the site
of the disappearance
of the young girl on
3rd May of this
year, about 25 to 30
minutes after the
patrol.
Upon arriving at the
site he was told
that this was a case
of abduction, this
information being
transmitted, he
thinks, by the
girl's father. He
was also informed by
Silvia (head of
maintenance at the
resort) that the
parents and friends
said it was an
abduction, their
intention being to
inform the media,
and that they were
in fact making phone
calls to this
effect.
As regards the
witness who alleged
to have seen an
individual carrying
a child, whose (the
witness) name he
cannot remember, he
says that upon
learning of this
situation, she stood
next to two
soldiers, awaiting
the arrival of
police officers. He
did not speak to her
as he does not speak
English well.
As regards the
searches, he say
that he did not
enter the apartment,
as it had already
been searched, but
instead remained
outside. Upon
arriving and finding
out about the
situation with his
Chief Roque, he
carried out a search
in a GNR car of all
the places the child
could be,
specifically in
commercial
establishments,
swimming pools and
open spaces.
After the arrival of
the police, also
accompanied by a
member of the GNR,
he continued
searching, checking
the beach and all
the paths leading to
it.
At 05.00/06.00 he
left the scene,
having returned a
little after 07.00.
He did not carry out
any searches in the
company of the
child's family or
friends.
When questioned he
replies that he
remembers that the
blinds of the window
of the child's room
were open, but
inclined (the lower
part, at about a
hand's width). He
does not remember if
the window was open
or what the state of
the curtains was. He
did not enter the
room because he was
told, he does not
remember by whom,
that the twins were
sleeping.
He did not talk to
the parents because,
as he has stated
previously, he does
not speak English
well.
By observing the
scene he was unable
to form an opinion
whether it was an
abduction or just a
disappearance,
although the whole
area had been
searched.
As concerns the
photos of the child,
he says that he only
saw what he calls
the originals,
poster type 10 x 15
cm on photographic
paper. He did not
see any other type
of photos. Upon
being shown a
sample, he
recognises it as
being identical.
When asked he say he
does not know the
quantity of photos,
but that there was
more than one. He
says that of these
photos, at least
five, he annexed one
to the document he
sent to the Tribunal
and another four
were handed to the
officers carrying
out searches, which
were later returned
and handed to the
police, in due
course.
He says he does not
know who handed him
the photos,
different from each
other, two by two.
He is sure that he
is the person who
received them.
He states that the
photos came from
inside the
apartment, he still
cannot say who had
them. When he was
inside the police
car, gathering
identification
documents from the
parents, he asked
someone nearby for
photos, he does not
know if that person
was Portuguese or
British. This same
person entered the
apartment and came
out with the photos.
He does not know
whether it was
Silvia Baptista who
gave him the photos,
as she was
translating the
conversations,
neither whether it
was someone from the
family or friends.
He is sure that he
received them in the
early morning, at
about 02.00, when
the police arrived,
after having carried
out the first
search.
He has the
impression he saw
the girl's father,
however he cannot
confirm whether he
was the one to give
him the photos.
He presumes he was
given the photos
directly, or in
other words that
they were not passed
to him via someone
else.
When questioned he
says that the photos
could not have been
printed/revealed at
the Ocean Club
installations (they
do not have this
kind of paper). He
adds that the photos
produced the
following day, which
he observed, were
printed on A4 paper,
which was available
at the resort.
He says no more.
Reads, ratifies and
signs.
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1315 to 1317 Witness
statement of Antonio
Henrique da Conceicao Duarte
2007.05.16 |
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1315 to 1317-Witness
statement of Antonio Henrique
da Conceicao Duarte 2007.05.16
Witness Statement
Date: 2007/05/16
Antonio Henrique da Duarte Conceicao
Occupation: GNR Officer
He has been a GNR office since 1982.
He holds the post of sergeant and is
currently the Commander of the Lagos
GNR Post.
At about 23.10/23.17 he heard from a
telephone call from the Patrol
Commander, Officer Roque, that there
had been a disappearance at the OC
resort, P da L.
Roque was on duty that day with
Officer Nelson Costa.
He was told that (Roque) had already
gone to main reception of the
complex in Rua Direita and had met
the father of the little girl who
had appeared in the reception with a
friend. Together with employee
Silvia (service manager of the OC
and who also acted as translator,
the father (Gerald McCann) and the
friend they went inside the
apartment from which Madeleine
McCann had disappeared. After Roque
checked that the child was not in
the apartment, he gathered
information from the mother and
father. He was told by the patrol,
that the father had put forward a
theory saying that it could have
been an abduction. He was also told
that there was a shutter that had
been 'raised'.
The witness, from the description
and supposed seriousness of the
facts related, ordered the immediate
preservation of the scene, and said
he would go to the site and
communicate the facts to the PJ
(this was done from the Post, he
does not remember which officer did
this but thinks it was Officer
Patricio).
He arrived alone, in his own car at
about 23.50 and went to the
apartment (to the entrance hall) by
means of the front door (opposite
the parking area) where he found the
girl's parents, a couple and Silvia.
He was told that the twins were
still sleeping in the bedroom. On
the patio next to the front door,
was an English woman who had spoken
to the patrol, and had referred to
having see someone pass in the
street, in a dark area, who was
carrying a child. As the information
had already been gathered and given
his limited knowledge of English, he
did not manage to talk to the woman.
At the scene, he talked directly to
the patrol and to Silvia who
informed him about what had been
said. His hope was that the child
had left the apartment alone and got
lost or that someone had seen her
and stayed with her temporarily.
He gave orders to the post so that
they would send more officers to the
scene, amongst them he remembers
Officers Pimentel, Costa, Silva,
Santos, Casimiro and Neto. He
ordered one officer from the patrol
to stay on the scene - Officer
Costa. He then contacted the interim
commander in Portimao, Lieutenant
Bengala. He then went with Roque to
several establishments that were
still open and also patrolled the
zone, in his car and on foot.
He had contact with several people,
individually and as groups,
obtaining information about the
search results. He cannot say whom
these people were.
Between 05.30 and 06.00 he went
home, returning at 08.00.
He say he does not know Murat, and
does not have the notion of having
seen him before Friday 4th May at
the mobile post installed at Rua
Agostinho da Silva.
The first he knew about the
existence of Murat was of an active
individual who offered his help to
translate some information/contacts
with people who arrived at the
mobile post, also offering to make a
bridge with the OC.
He remembers that on a certain day,
which he cannot specify, a
journalist whom he cannot identify,
informed him that amongst the
Portuguese and foreign journalists
at the scene, suspicion was
'running' about Robert Murat.
Together with Officer Sequeira he
informed the PJ to transmit this
information.
On the following day, in the
morning, he remembers that Robert
Murat arrived at the mobile post
saying that he noticed the
journalists's suspicion about him
and gave his mobile number and told
him that he was going to discuss
this with the PJ and that he was
going to have 'dinner'.
No more was said. Reads, ratifies
and signs.
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