External diligence performed on 4 May 2007 by Inspectors J.C.Franco and C.Lucas at the GALP service stations on the A22 at Lagos and Loule
— On this date, around 11h30, we went to the GALP service station of Lagos, on the A22, East-West direction, having in view the collection of information for this case file.
— A photograph of the missing female child was shown to all the employees there present, with negative results as to her recognition.
— The service station manager, Sr.J.Nunes, made available the viewing of images from the surveillance cameras installed there, there having been analysed the images recorded from 21h00 on 3 May to 12h00 today.
— In those said images, about 11h10 today, it was possible to observe the entrance of a couple accompanied by a female child with similar characteristics, whereupon I proceeded to recover the same and prints thereof for analysis.
— The preservation of the images was requested for a future analysis.
— In the service area opposite, direction West-East, the photograph of the child was also shown, again with negative results.
— Images from the closed circuit surveillance system installed there were also viewed, nothing having resulted of use to this present investigation.
— We then went to the GALP service station of Loule, on the A22, both directions, where both closed circuit video surveillance systems were viewed, with negative results.
— The photograph of the child was also shown, with equally negative results.
— This activity was terminated around 17h00, it not having been possible to recover more or better items for the file.
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Fax dated 4 May 2007 to the GALP service station in Lagos requesting images from their surveillance recordings.
In the interests of the investigation being conducted by this police force, you are requested to furnish to this police force images from the surveillance cameras installed in that service station, of the period understood between 11h05 and 11h35 on 4 May 2007, which show images of a female child with physical characteristics resembling those of the child missing on the night of 3 May 2007, in Praia da Luz, Lagos.
It is further requested that those images are preserved with the view of a possible request for future analysis.
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Five annotated images printed from those obtained from GALP service station in Lagos on 4 May 2007.
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Official record of photographic recognition
On 4 May 2007, in this DIC of Portimao of the PJ, in front of me, Inspector C.Lucas, accompanied by Inspector J.Franco, appeared G.P.McCann and K.M.Healy, better identified [elsewhere] in this file, in order to conduct a photographic recognition from images recovered in the GALP service station on the A22 in investigation in the present Inquiry.
Based upon the items furnished, there were exhibited to them images of a child of the same sex and identical age to the missing child, after which they were asked if they recognised the child shown in the images, to which they responded:
That they did not recognise the child shown in the image.
– Signed as being a true record by the four persons named above –
