OFFICIAL INQUIRY FILES and DOCUMENTS
FORENSIC BLOOD SPOT TRACES

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

2191 to 2203 Service information regarding collected vestiges in 5A with photographs

WITH THANKS TO ALBYM

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Service Information 1 August 2007
By Joao Direito, Inspector

Recovery of possible trace evidence

I bring to your attention in accordance with instructions received, that today, around 20h00, LPC Assistant Specialists Fernando Viegas and Lino Rodrigues, after seeing recorded images relating to the canine inspection conducted on 31 July 2007 in apartment 5A of the Ocean Club, duly explained in an official statement in the case file, they proceeded to collect [recover] the floor tiles where the dogs used in the activity indicated [alerted to] the possible existence of blood traces along with the position of a cadaver in that location.
Those tiles were lifted from the floor, in a way to preserve the possible traces intact for them to be subjected to examination by an authorised laboratory.
The activity was filmed in a way to illustrate the manner in which the uplifting was performed and the tools used, allowing that the experts would have a better understanding of all the circumstances inherent in the removal action. This resulted in the recordings of two video cassettes (Mini DV) which are attached.
The LPC officers are going to produce the official report.
That is all I have to advise.
Inspector, Joao Direito.

Back of Sofa
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1- Tile pieces identified with number 1;

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2- Tile pieces identified with number 2;

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3- Tile pieces identified with number 3;

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4- Tile pieces identified with number 4;

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5- Tile pieces identified near number 1;

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6- Pieces of skirting identified with number 1;

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7- Pieces of skirting identified with number 2;

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8- Pieces of skirting identified between number 2 and 3;

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9- Pieces of skirting identified with number 3;

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10- Pieces of skirting identified with number 4;

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11 - Pieces of skirting identified nearby number 1;
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12- Pieces of skirting identified nearby number 4;

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13- Residue / small fragments of the skirting area;

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14- Dust 1 small fragments of the tile area;

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15- Cement glue between the tiles in the edge of the recovered area;
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16- Cement glue between the tile identified with number 1;

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Curtains back of Sofa

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17- Cement glue between the tile identified with number 2;

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17- Cement glue between the tile identified with number 2;

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18- Cement glue between the tile identified with number 3;

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19- Cement glue between the tile identified with number
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2204 to 2210 Delivery documents of all vestiges collected (English) sent to Birmingham 2007.08.07
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Table of Contents : Processo Vol 8...Pages 2204 to 2210?"Delivery documents of all vestiges collected (English) sent to Birmingham 7th August. 2007
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(Delivery guide of recovered evidences at the crime scene)

In order to carry out the determined by the 4.a Brigada of Department of Investigation Criminal of Polcia Judiciaria, concerning the process number 201/07.OGALGS, on the 1st August, 2007, between 20:00h and 01:30h of the 2nd August, 2007, were recovered the following evidences in the living room of the apartment 5A, Ocean Club Villas, Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, where it is possible may have occurred a crime of homicide, by the Crime Scene Investigators Fernando Jos?da Silva Viegas and Lino Manuel Lima Henriques:-

1- Tile pieces identified with number 1;
2- Tile pieces identified with number 2;
3- Tile pieces identified with number 3;
4- Tile pieces identified with number 4;
5- Tile pieces identified near number 1;
6- Pieces of skirting identified with number 1 ;
7- Pieces of skirting identified with number 2;
8- Pieces of skirting identified between number 2 and 3;
9- Pieces of skirting identified with number 3;
10- Pieces of skirting identified with number 4;
11 - Pieces of skirting identified nearby number 1 ;
12- Pieces of skirting identified nearby number 4;
13- Residue / small fragments of the skirting area;
14- Dust / small fragments of the tile area;
15- Cement glue between the tiles in the edge of the recovered area;
16- Cement glue between the tile identified with number 1;
17- Cement glue between the tile identified with number 2;
18- Cement glue between the tile identified with number 3;
19- Cement glue between the tile identified with number 4;
20- Leftovers of tiles and cement glue;


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21- Fragments of bushes;
22- Two mouth swabs from CSI Fernando Jose Silva Viegas;
23-Two mouth swabs from CSI Lino Manuel Lima ~enriques;
24- Two mouth swabs from CSI Bruno Jorge Possid?io Mendes Antunes.

All these evidences were delivered to the Forensic Science Laboratory - Birmingham Laboratory, Priory House, Gooch Street North, Birmingham, B56QQ, on the 7th August, 2007.-

Birmingham, August, 7th, 2007

Who delivers - Illegible, (to me), handwritten Signature.

Who received - S NIBLETTS, FSS Birmingham ( plus handwritten Signature)

Dated 07 August 2007



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(Delivery guide of recovered evidences at the crime scene)

In order to carry out the determined by the 4.a Brigada of Departamento of Investiga?o Criminal of Policia Judici?ia, concerning the process number 201/07.OGALGS, between 15:00h of 4th August, 2007, and 06:30h of 5th August, 2007, were recovered the following evidences in the living room of the apartment 5A, Ocean Club Villas, Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, where it is possible may have occurred a crime of homicide, by the Crime Scene Investigators Fernando Jos?da Silva Viegas and Bruno Jorge Possid?io Mendes Antunes:-

I A - Stain on the floor recovered with a Dry swab;
1 B - Stain on the floor recovered with swab with distilled water;
2A - Stain on the floor recovered with a Dry swab;
2B - Stain on the floor recovered with swab with distilled water:
3A - Stain on the floor recovered with a Dry swab;
3B - Stain on the floor recovered with swab with distilled water;
4A - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
4B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;
5A - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
5B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;
6A - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
6B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;
7A - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
7B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;
8A - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
8B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;
9A - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
9B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;
10A - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
10B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;



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11IA - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
11 B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;
12A - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
12B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;
13A - Stain on the wall recovered with a Dry swab;
13B - Stain on the wall recovered with swab with distilled water;
14A - Stain on the back of the sofa recovered with a Dry swab;
14B - Stain on the back of the sofa recovered with swab with distilled water;
15A - Stain on the back of the sofa recovered with a Dry swab;
15B - Stain on the back of the sofa recovered with swab with distilled water;
16 - Blue curtain;
16B - White curtain behind blue curtain and armband.

All these evidences were delivered to the Forensic Science Laboratory - Birmingham Laboratory, Priory House, Gooch Street North, Birmingham, B56QQ, on the 7th August, 2007.-

Birmingham, 7th August, 2007

Who delivers - Illegible, (to me), handwritten Signature.

Who received - S NIBLETTS, FSS Birmingham ( plus handwritten Signature)

Dated 07 August 2007



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(Delivery guide of recovered evidences at the crime scene)

In order to carry out the determined by the 4.a Brigada of Department of Investigations Criminal of Policia Judiciaria, concerning the process number 201/07.OGALGS, on the 3rd August, 2007, were recovered the following evidence in the living room of the apartment 5A, Ocean Club Villas, Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, where it is possible may have occurred a crime of homicide, by the Fingerprint Expert Teresa Borges:-

1 - Piece of curtain.

This evidence was delivered to the Forensic Science Laboratory - Birmingham Laboratory, Priory House, Gooch Street North, Birmingham, B56QQ, on the 7th August, 2007.-

Birmingham, 7th August, 2007

Who delivers - Illegible, (to me), handwritten Signature.

Who received - S NIBLETTS, FSS Birmingham ( plus handwritten Signature)

Dated 07 August 2007



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(Delivery guide of recovered evidences at the crime scene)

In order to carry out the determined by the 4.a Brigada of Department of Investigation Criminal of Policia Judiciara, concerning the process number 201/07.OGALGS, between 21:30h of 6th August, 2007, and 06:00h of 7th August, 2007, were recovered the following evidences in a vehicle Renault Scenic, colour grey, licence plate 59-DA-27 by the Crime Scene Investigators Femando Jos?da Silva Viegas and Lino Manuel Lima Henriques:-

IA - Hair in the driver's place;
1 B - Fibres and possibly hairs on vertical part of the seat of left side front;
1C - Fibres and possibly hairs on horizontal part of the seat of left side front;
1 D - Nail on the driver's floor;
2A - Hair in the right side front seat;
2B - Hair in the right side front floor;
2C - Fibres and possibly hairs on vertical part of the seat of right side front;
2D - Fibres and possibly hairs on horizontal part of the seat of right side fmnt;
2E - Nail in the right side front floor;
3 - Hair between the front seats;
4A - Hair in the back seat left;
4B - Fibres and possibly hairs on vertical part of the back seat left;
4C - Fibres and possibly hairs on horizontal part of the back seat left;
5A - Hair in the back seat centre;
5B - Fibres and possibly hairs on vertical part of the back seat centre;
5C - Fibres and possibly hairs on horizontal part of the back seat centre;
6A - Hair in the back seat right;
6B - Fibres and possibly hairs on vertical part of the back seat right;
6C - Fibres and possibly hairs on horizontal part of the back seat right;
7A - Hair in the left seat on the luggage compartment;

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7B - Fibres and possibly hairs on vertical part of the left seat on the luggage compartment;
7C - Fibres and possibly hairs on horizontal part of the left seat on the luggage compartment;
8A - Hair in the right seat on the luggage compartment;
8B - Fibres and possibly hairs on vertical part of the right seat on the luggage compartment;
8C - Fibres and possibly hairs on horizontal part of the right seat on the luggage compartment;
9 - Hair in luggage compartment;
10 - Top of the luggage compartment;
11 - Fibres and possibly hairs on the boot mat;
12 - Car key;
13 - Control samples of seat tissues;
14 - Two mouth swabs from Fingerprint Expert Pedro Miguel Filipe Gon?lo Vilhena;
15 - Fibres recovered from Fingerprint Expert Pedro Miguel Filipe Gon?lo Vilhena;

All these evidences were delivered in the Forensic Science Laboratory - Birmingham Laboratory, Priory House, Gooch Street North, Birmingham, B56QQ, on the 7th August, 2007.-

Birmingham, August, 7.th, 2007

Who delivers - Illegible, (to me), handwritten Signature.

Who received - S NIBLETTS, FSS Birmingham ( plus handwritten Signature)

Dated 07 August 2007

3211 to 3223  Report dated 14 August 2007 of evidence collected by the Police Scientific Laboratory from Apartment 5A on 2007.08.04 with pictures of where evidence found (pictures including spots found on wall behind sofa)

TRANSLATED BY ALBYM

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Expert Examination 200711733-CR/L
Requester: DIC Portimao Policia Judiciaria
Case: 201/07.0GALGS
Fax: 638 dated 10 August 2007
Examination date: 4 August 2007
Inquiry: This is the report of the recovery of trace evidence on 4 August 2007 from
Apartment 5A, Block A, tourist resort "Ocean Club" - Praia da Luz, Lagos, from where
there occurred, on 3 May 2007, the disappearance of a minor of English nationality.

Observations and Analyses Performed.

On 4 August 2007, at 15h00, a crime laboratory team comprising the signatories
went, at the request of DIC Portimao PJ, to a residence at [the above address] in
order to collect trace evidence from the place.

According to the request by the officers of the DIC Portimao present at the location,
the undersigned should proceed to inspect, "by naked eye" [in natural light] and
through the use of a light source that can alter wavelengths appropriately for the job,
and to the recovery of all spots
[stains; marks] existing on the floor and on the wall of the living room next to the place from where there were previously lifted and collected four floor tiles, and on the back of the blue, cloth-upholstered sofas that were next to that wall.

We were informed by those same officers that those recoveries should be performed
through swabs commonly used by the English police (which were given to us by those
DIC officers) and that there should not be used any of the indication tests that permit
to identify what type of trace evidence those spots might contain.

It was also requested of the undersigned that they entered into contact with an
English scientific advisor, named Jonathan Smith, who indicates the manner in which
to proceed with the recovery of those spots.In that contact the undersigned were told that they should use in the recovery of each spot two (2) swabs: one applied directly onto the spot, and the other previously moistened with distilled water and then applied onto the spot.

 
Photos 1 and 2: Pictures of the general locations of the wall and rear of the sofa from which spots were collected.
In line with the above request from the DIC officers the search and identification of spots was done, in natural light and using a light source that altered wavelengths appropriately for the job, on the wall.
In the search there were thirteen (13) spots, there being three (3) in diverse areas of the floor and ten (10) in diverse areas of the wall.
Those spots were recovered with cotton swabs referred to before (two swabs being used for each spot) they having been referenced as trace evidence numbers 1 to 13.
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Photos 3 through 5: Pictures of the locations where spots were identified and from which trace evidence [swabs] numbered 1 to 13 were collected.
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Photos 6 through 31: Detailed pictures, in natural and altered-wavelength light, of each of the spots numbered 1 to 13.
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Following that, the search and identification of spots, in natural and altered-wavelength light appropriate for the job, was made on the back of the blue, cloth-
upholstered sofas that had been next to the wall. Two (2) spots were identified in that search.
Those spots were recovered using the above-mentioned swabs (two swabs per spot) they having been referenced as trace evidence numbers 14 and 15.

Photos 32 through 36: General location and detailed pictures of the spots numbered 14 and 15.

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Finally, the search and identification of spots, in natural and altered-wavelength light appropriate for the job, was made on two (2) blue curtains. Several spots were found. Because there were no further English police swabs available, the [blue] curtains, together with their white lining, were taken and put into a paper package referenced as trace evidence number 16.

Photos 37 and 38: Photos showing the location of the spots identified on the blue curtain. [NOTE: those five spots were in the body of the curtains, not at the hem]

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Photos 39 through 41: Detailed pictures of the curtain spots in wavelength-altered light.
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Conclusions:
On 4 August there were collected at [the above address]:
- Three (3) spots from the floor, numbered as trace evidence 1 to 3;
- Ten (10) spots from the wall, numbered as trace evidence 4 to 13;
- Two (2) spots from the back of one blue, cloth-upholstered sofa existing in the living room, numbered as trace evidence 14 to 15;
- Two blue curtains with white curtain lining from one of the windows of the living
room, numbered as trace evidence 16.

In accordance with the request by officers of the DIC Portimao the material referenced as 1 to 16 were delivered to FSS Laboratory, Birmingham, United Kingdom under cover of delivery note number 286A/2007-CR/L, a copy of which is attached, for further laboratory examination.

Finally, it was also requested by the investigating officers that we proceeded also with the delivery to FSS of Birmingham, United Kingdom, for further laboratory
examination, a piece of the other white lining from the blue curtains numbered 16,
that had been collected on 3 August 2007.
The paper package containing that piece of white lining was delivered to FSS of
Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, under cover of delivery note 286B/2007-CR/L, a copy of which is attached.
Lisboa, 14 September 2007
[Signed] Bruno A. and Fernando V.

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