Service information dated 5 May 2007 by Inspector A.Silva about information recovered in response to a possible sighting at the REPSOL service station in Vale Paraiso, Albufeira on 4 May
— Following a communication to this police force, giving an account that yesterday (4 May 2007), in the morning, a grey Renault vehicle, number plate AQ-23-81, entered the petrol pump area of the Repsol service station in Vale Paraiso, Albufeira, where it was filled with petrol, by a Caucasian individual, medium stature, appearing to to be 50/60 years old.
— This individual was closely accompanied by a small female child, fair-skinned, blonde, appearing to be 3 or 4 years old.
— This adult after having filled the car, went inside the shop, effecting payment for the fuel in cash, left, going again to the car. The child always followed him closely, but the adult did not appear to pay her ant attention, that fact being considered strange by the two service employees.
— The car left the place and travelled towards the Albufeira roundabout (traffic circle).
— One of the employees in the meantime identified as Rute (Ruth?), contactable through mobile phone number 967****32 (belonging to her husband Rui), communicated the situation to this police force, given that she had heard through the media about the disappearance of the minor Madeleine in Lagos.
— In the visit to the Repsol petrol station, alluded to above, it was possible to obtain a CD ROM containing recorded images of the situation described above, which were immediately subjected to viewing.
— In the same way, various inquiries were made, with a view to a better understanding and identification of those involved, from which was determined the following:
—— the car was a Renault 9, blue, four door (three-box design; [saloon]), with number plate AQ-23-81.
—— Not apprehended. Does not have current insurance. Last obligatory inspection 17 Aug 2006 in Guia, Albufeira.
—— The vehicle is registered in the name of J.dos R.Q., address in Almada.
—— It was determined that that individual had already died. No record of telephones installed at the address. No police records under that name nor of any person being his possible ascendant. He was never in any inquiry, he himself applying for the vehicle licence. Other official databases were consulted, nothing came up about him.
— After editing and printing of the images recovered from the Repsol CD ROM, and they having been exhibited, it was determined that the minor shown there presented differences from the missing child, which gave rise to concluding that it was not the same person. The principal difference resides in the fact that the pictured child had hair half-way down her back, manifestly longer than that of the missing child, there having been no time/opportunity for the hair to have grown to that length, given that the average speed of hair growth is about 1cm/month (proven scientific data).
— The results of the inquiries and the images of the episode in question are attached.
This is all, at the moment, that I have to bring to your attention.
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Page 142 shows a vehicle record inquiry made by the police officer
Pages 143-144 show four photographs from the Repsol station surveillance system.
