'They were running, shouting for Maddy'

Jose Baptiste told a newspaper today how he waited on Kate and Gerry McCann and their friends on 3 May - at the Ocean Club, a tapas bar in Praia da Luz.

He said it was the fourth night the group had dined together. It was just like the other nights, he said, until 10pm when Mrs McCann went back to check on Madeleine and her siblings Sean and Amelie.

"It had been a normal night. Then it became madness."

"Then I heard shouting and terrible screaming from the apartments and my colleague told me a child had gone missing," Mr Baptiste, 45, told the Sun.

"After that is was chaos. People were running around shouting for Maddy and we all started to help looking for her."

Mr Baptiste told the newspaper that he recalled the men checking on the children on previous nights.

On 3 May he recalled only Mrs McCann leaving the table to check.

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