{"id":13141,"date":"2024-04-18T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madeleinesearch.com\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2024-04-18T16:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:43:26","slug":"processos-vol-viii-pages-1975-to-1977-witness-statement-of-silvia-maria-correia-ramos-batista-2007-07-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madeleinesearch.com\/?p=13141","title":{"rendered":"Processos Vol VIII Pages 1975 to 1977 Witness statement of Silvia Maria Correia Ramos Batista 2007.07.26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Witness statement of Silvia Maria Correia Ramos Batista<\/strong> 2007.07.26
Date: 26 July 2007; Time: 16h00; Place: DIC Portimao
Officer: Paulo F., Inspector
To the matter at hand she said:
— Already having given declarations in this case several times recalling the content of what she\u00a0
had stated previously, reproducing [repeating] them all unchanged for this document.
— The deponent appears again given that in the time since Madeleine disappeared she [S.B.] has\u00a0
remembered some details of witnessed facts\/events that she considers may, in some way, be of\u00a0
interest to the investigation.
— As already stated she was alerted to disappearance of Madeleine between 22h30 and 23h00.\u00a0
She was at home and was informed of what happened by telephone. She went immediately to the\u00a0
Ocean Club where she arrived a few minutes before the GNR officers arrived there. When she\u00a0
arrived at the resort she went immediately to apartment 5A where she found several people as\u00a0
much\/many inside the apartment as outside it. Still she entered the apartment but left straight away\u00a0
without having spoken with anyone who was there, since at the same time she was told that GNR\u00a0
officers were at the main reception and she went to find them.
— When she arrived at the officer’s location she saw that behind them was Gerry, Madeleine’s\u00a0
father, with another person but she does not remember who it was. At that time Gerry was on the\u00a0
ground on his knees, he hit the ground with both his hands, looking like an Arab at prayer, and\u00a0
emitted two screams of rage [fury, madness] but she could not understand what he said. Then\u00a0
Gerry stood up and accompanied the deponent and the other person to the GNR vehicle next to\u00a0
the 5A apartment.
— Once inside the apartment she asked those present for the passports of all members of their\u00a0
families, as well as photographs of the missing girl. The deponent accompanied Gerry to the GNR\u00a0
vehicle in order to deliver the requested documents. She states that she did this work, as well as\u00a0
other work, at the request of the GNR Commander because they used her knowledge of English to\u00a0
translate questions put to members of the family of the missing girl, as well as the answers that\u00a0
were given. She recalls Gerry delivered several photographs of the missing girl to the GNR\u00a0
Commander. The photos were postcard-style, they having that dimension and format. In truth they\u00a0
were photographs of the dimension and format [size and shape] of a postcard, and they all looked\u00a0
the same to her.
— She was aware that from the first moment either Gerry or the others insisted in affirming that\u00a0
Madeleine had been abducted always using the word “abducted” instead of disappeared, and all\u00a0
showed great interest that the press were informed of the situation.
— The deponent recalls further that she entered the bedroom where Madeleine had been\u00a0
sleeping. Remembering it now that the door was closed. The interior of the room was dark. The\u00a0
external blinds were down, light entering [the room] only through the holes in them. The windows\u00a0
were shut and the curtains were slightly open. Gerry accompanied her on this visit, also with GNR\u00a0
officers and he said that it had been him who had closed the window because the babies were still\u00a0
sleeping there, which the deponent noticed to be true. Gerry stated that when he he was told about\u00a0
Madeleine’s disappearance he had found there the window and the blinds open, and the curtains\u00a0
fluttering [as in the wind]. The deponent recalls that there were beds in the middle of the room and\u00a0
that those being used by the babies were aligned [with each other] and therefore she thought it\u00a0
strange that someone had taken Madeleine from the bed where she had been sleeping as far as to\u00a0
the window because from that layout [of the beds] there had been no space to get past. The\u00a0
deponent opened the wardrobes in the bedroom in order to check if possibly Madeleine wasn’t\u00a0
hidden in there. Then everyone left the bedroom someone having returned to close the door. The\u00a0
deponent then spent some time in the room [lounge], with the GNR officers, Gerry and other\u00a0
members of the group there who were in a large whirl, who came in, left and spoke on the mobile\u00a0
phone. She noticed that none of the group, including the child’s parents, were occupied with the\u00a0
search. The mother was seated on the bed in the couple’s bedroom, the father accompanied her\u00a0
and the police officers and the other members of the group entered, left and spoke on the phone,\u00a0
appearing to her to be preoccupied with informing the press about what had happened.
— She thought that the child’s mother was dejected [downcast; depressed; discouraged], the\u00a0
father was preoccupied [worried] and also asked whether the media had been advised or the\u00a0
search dogs had been arranged [organised]. Of the others she only recalls that Fiona and her\u00a0
husband, Payne, were hysterical with the situation. At a given point, soon after the PJ officers\u00a0
arrived, the parents took the twins from their beds where they were sleeping, taking them up to the\u00a0
apartment on the first floor. At Kate’s request the deponent took from the babies’ cots the dolls and\u00a0
a blanket also up to the first floor. The cots stayed with only the mattresses [in them].
— The deponent wanted also to state that around 03h00 Madeleine’s parents asked [about] the\u00a0
presence of a priest in the area. They didn’t explain their reason for wanting a priest but the\u00a0
deponent found it strange since there was no indication that the child was dead and it is usual only\u00a0
in those circumstances that one would ask for a priest.
— At a certain point the deponent translated a statement from one of the ladies of the English\u00a0
group, the lady she indicated as being dark-skinned. This lady said to the police officers, and the\u00a0
deponent translated, that she had seen a man walking [passing] in the street, possibly with a child\u00a0
in his arms. The deponent thought this strange because she was convinced that when she had\u00a0
seen the man the lady was positioned in an area that had no line of sight to the area where she\u00a0
would have seen the man. She doesn’t know exactly where the lady was positioned when she saw\u00a0
the man pass, but she knows that she indicated having seen him passing in the road that was in\u00a0
front of the bedroom window where Madeleine had been, walking in the direction of the road of the\u00a0
road that then goes to the Baptista supermarket.
— Questioned as to the clothing the members of the English group had worn that night she states\u00a0
that she only recalls that Fiona wore a green blouse, that Gerry wore a dark shirt and that Fiona’s\u00a0
husband wore plain trousers, cream, she thinks.
Nothing more said. Read, ratifies and is going to sign.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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