To: The Public Prosecutor
Portimao Judicial Circuit

Date: 17 September 2007

Nicholas Springate, of British nationality, bearer of passport number No.*******, BBC journalist, press card no.******* and Steven Kingston, of British nationality, bearer of passport no. *******, BBC journalist, press card n******* both with the professional address of ********, Lagoa, Portugal, given the entry into force on the 15th September 2007 of the changes introduced by the Law 48/2007 of 29th August, introduced into the Penal Process Code, article 86 of this code being modified in no. 1 to ‘the penal process and under penalty of nullity, public’ considering the terms laid down in no. 1 of article 5 of the Penal Process code ‘the processional law is of immediate application’, consequently applicable to processes that were initiated previously and their duration, namely the so-called “Madeleine Case”, which due to the above mentioned legal norms is no longer under judicial secrecy and is now public under penalty of nullity, come to request, under the dispositions of articles 86, no. 1, 88 no.1 and 90, no. 1 of the Penal Process Code, authorisation to consult the process files of the ‘Maddie Case’ (denomination adopted in a note for the media dated 11-09-2007 by his Excellency the Public Prosecutor in order to identify the process in question for effects of the divulgation of information, with particular attention to public repercussions of the case.

Portimao, 17th September, 2007

We request and await deferral.

Nicholas Springate Steven Kingston