Service Information

2007/05/05

To: Dr Goncalo Amaral, Criminal Investigation Coordinator

From: Joao Carvalho, Inspector

Subject: Suspicion about the disappearance of Madeleine Beth McCann

I hereby inform you that today at about 16.40 at the OC block 6 apartment 6 (the operations base for this police force in the investigation of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, an individual who identified himself as Derek Flack, phone no ***** appeared before me.

He is an English citizen on holiday in Praia da Luz, near to the tourist resort, from last week until approximately 12th May 2007.

In view of the disappearance of Madeleine, he came to give information about a suspicious event that he witnessed:

On the 2nd or 3rd May during the day (he does not remember exactly, but thinks it was during the afternoon), accompanied by his wife and when he was going to the Baptists supermarket, he observed an individual (about 1.70 in height, dark apparently Portuguese in appearance, with one day stubble, with short dark hair, cut long at the back, which extended to his shirt collar, wearing a yellow T ? shirt) who was standing at the corner of the path watching (this being the reason he found him suspicious) in the direction of the apartment that Madeleine would later disappear from.

He adds that near to where the individual was watching, on the other side of the road, was a parked vehicle, van type, white, with a person (he does not remember whether the person was inside or outside the vehicle). He cannot describe that person.

Because of what happened he felt he should make a statement to the police as he felt that what he saw was suspicious.

A sketch was drawn up at his request, identifying the suspicious man with n? 2 and the parked car with the other person about whom he can remember no further details as no 1.
He is available to collaborate with the police, if necessary.
Signed Joao Carvalho, Inspector