OFFICIAL INQUIRY FILES and DOCUMENTS
MARIA GUIOMAR MESTRE FERNANDES

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

CLEANER 09 MAY 07

771 to 772 Witness statement of Maria Guiomar Mestre Fernandes 2007.05.09

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03-Processos Vol III Pages 771-772
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Witness Statement

Maria Guiomar Mestre Fernandes

Date: 2007-05-09

Occupation: Cleaner

Place of Work: OC


She has worked as a cleaner at the OC for the last six years, part time until March 2006 when she began to work full time. She works from 10.00 to 13.30 and from 14.30 to 18.00 with Sundays off.

Her function is to clean the rooms and apartments which takes place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On Thursdays and Saturdays guests arrive and leave and she cleans the rooms and apartments that they move out of.

She cleans the rooms and apartments in the Club zone, lots 5 and 7, this cleaning is done by her alone.

That, in spite of this area being allocated to her, she sometimes is asked to help a colleague clean other rooms and apartments, especially on the days when guests arrive and leave.

In order to carry out the cleaning of rooms and apartments she needs the keys which are distributed by her superior, Marina. The distribution of the keys corresponds to the area that is allocated to each cleaner, and occurs at the beginning of each working day. After finishing work, the keys are returned to the superior.

She heard about the events on the following day 4th May from her superior. On that day her superior told her and her colleagues to search for the girl in the areas they were working.

On 3rd May she began work at 10.00, spending most of the day cleaning the apartments in the Club and at the end of the day she cleaned a room in the Garden zone, she thinks it was no. 26, finishing work at 18.00 and leaving the resort to go home.

She did not see anything abnormal on 3rd May or on the preceding days.

Has no further information.

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