Witness Statement

Aritson Henrique Soares Santos Lucio

Date: 2007/05/08

Occupation: Restaurant employee

Place of Work: Ocean Club

He works as a waiter/kitchen helper in the Tapas restaurant in the OC resort. He has worked there since the 19th March 2007.

He says that in the exercise of his functions within the kitchen he doe not come into contact with clients.

His hours are from 10.00 to 18.00 without a lunch break, every day except for Wednesdays and Saturdays which are his days off.

He has nothing to add regarding the events being investigated.

But he says that until the press released information and pictures he had never seen the McCann family before.

On the day of the events, he worked as usual and at about 18.00 returned to his home where he stayed with his girlfriends Catia Costa.

He found out about the events when he arrived at work the following day.

He saw nothing strange and has nothing to add.

Reads, ratifies, signs.