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TAPAS BAR
WAITER |
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258 to 260 Witness statement of
Joaquim Jose Moreira
Baptista
2007.05.06 |
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Processos
Volume II
Pages 258 to
260
Joaquim Jose
Moreira
Baptista
Occupation:
Waiter
Place of
Work: Tapas
Bar, OC
Time/Date:
18H50
2007/05/06
Portuguese
National
Comes to the
process as a
witness. He
has worked
as a waiter
at the Tapas
restaurant
since 12th
Feb 2007.
His shift is
from 16.00 -
24.00 except
for
Saturdays
when he
works from
11.30 to
19.00. The
clients who
frequent the
restaurant
are mainly
English
tourists
staying at
the OC
resort.
When asked
he says that
he clearly
recalls the
appearance
of the
girl's
parents, he
does not
know their
names,
together
with a group
of English
tourists who
generally
accompanied
them, as for
almost a
week prior
to the
disappearance
they would
dine
practically
every day in
the Tapas
restaurant.
On the
occasions he
saw the
group dining
at the
restaurant
he never saw
the
children.
When asked,
he says he
does not
remember
ever having
seen
Madeleine's
face, which
only
happened
when he saw
her
photograph
after the
disappearance.
When asked,
he said that
during
dinner the
men from the
group would
leave the
table,
returning to
the table a
few minutes
later. The
witness says
that he does
not know
where they
went. These
absences
would last
for about 15
minutes. He
cannot say
with what
regularity
these
absences
occurred.
The witness
remembers
these
occurrences
well as
would often
have to take
a plate of
food
requested by
one of them
back, due to
the guest's
absence,
when he
would find
that the
guest was
not at the
table when
he came to
serve the
food.
When
questioned,
the witness
says that he
remembers on
Thursday 3rd
May, on the
day of the
disappearance,
that the
parents went
to dine at
the
restaurant
with the
usual
people. He
cannot be
precise, but
the witness
says that
the group
arrived
between
20.00 and
21.00. He
remembers
there being
about 9
people in
total. He
states that
he received
the food
orders from
the group.
Later,
between
22.00 and
22.30, when
the witness
was in the
kitchen, he
was informed
by a
colleague
that in the
meantime a
client had
entered the
restaurant
shouting and
that
afterwards
the whole
English had
left in a
panic. The
witness'
colleague
told him
that this
individual
had said
that a child
had
disappeared.
A few
minutes
later the
witness
noticed
great
agitation,
with many
people
everywhere
searching
for the
child.
From
information
that was
coming out,
the witness
learned that
the child
was a girl,
the daughter
of one of
the English
couple and
that she had
been in a
room nearby.
When asked,
the witness
says that at
the time he
was working
in the
restaurant
and
referring to
the days
before the
disappearance,
he never
noticed
anything
unusual. He
said that he
was never
asked about
the habits
of the
English
group nor
any
questions
concerning
children. He
says that on
the day of
the
disappearance
from the
time he
arrived at
work, he did
not notice
anything
unusual.
When asked,
he says that
at the end
of the
evening the
area
surrounding
the Tapas is
quiet with
little
circulation
of people.
He has no
comments as
to the
motive for
the
disappearance.
No more is
said. Read,
ratifies,
signs.
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