I could not consider Maria the cook statement as being a confirmation of seeing Madeleine for a few reasons...


Firstly, she admits to not knowing Maddie and only recognised her from the photos of her.  (The photos of a much younger Maddie?)

She describes a child who spent the day in the creche next to the tapas restaurant.  We KNOW Maddie went to the kids club above the reception 10 minutes away.


I suspect she was mistaken...








This leads me to another issue that is questionable...


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'Manuela' the cook claims to have cooked for the McCanns table that night.

This could not have been Maria Jose as she left the tapas at 6.45pm and did not return until the following evening.

So WHICH tapas cook was it on the video?


Here is the staff rota for the Tapas...  The 'cooks' are highlighted.  Three of them.  Which one is in the video?









'Manuela' claims to have been cooking on the grill that night, but also had knowledge of Madeleine going to the creche near the tapas... (Madeleine did not go to that creche she went to the kids club above the reception)

How could it be Maria Manuela Antonia Jose?  She left at 6.45pm until the following day and wasn't at the tapas that night.(See statement above)

It wasn't  Maria de Jesus R. Almeida as Thursday was her day off.








It wasn't Svetlana Starikova Vitorino as she claims 'During the times meals are served, she works outside the restaurant for some of the time, near to the grill and it is possible that she saw the girl on some occasion. However, she says that she does not have a clear idea of Madeleine, as many children were about, who looked quite similar to her.'









For those that question the research on 'who saw Madeleine'  I think you can see clearly that the above detailed research shows there is NO CONFIRMATION that any of the cooks in the tapas have confirmed they saw Maddie whether in their statement or in the video.

Most of the above was my very early research in 2008.  Can anyone show me if there was ANOTHER cook that I may have missed?

I just want to add that I find it very tedious when 'people' (I'm NOT referring to members in here..lol I understand that many may disagree and thats ok) claim that there were lots of sightings of Maddie.  They CLEARLY have NOT done any  research themselves yet choose to discredit mine!