Hi Mike, you seem to feel strongly about those derelict grounds. Have you thought about getting a team together and going over to dig?
When I was over in Portugal for a week, I was eventually drawn to the church and the derelict building across the street, This came about after walking routes taken by the McCanns and others in the group from thier holiday rooms at the Ocean club to the beach, to the restuarant on the beach, and locations of various sightings of a man seen carrying a child in his arms. I photographed the resort extensively along these routes and places which I thought / sensed, might be areas of interest. The sighting of the man Jane Tanner saw carrying a small child in his arms, obviously took the potential abductor away from the scene into the general direction of Murats place. The other sighting by the Smiths placed the potential abductor heading down towards where the Doctors building is located towards the beach...
It fell to be considered whether or not both sightings could be linked to the disappearence of Maddie from apartment 5A? If so, we have a description of two differently dressed men, carrying a child in thier arms, at different times during the same evening. One of these sightings (by Smith Clan) suggests that the man seen carrying a child in his arms could have been Gerry McCann. However, according to Tanners sighting the man seen carrying the child (travelling away from apartment 5A in a totally different direction) in his arms walking briskly across the junction could not have been Gerry McCann because Jane Tanner says that she saw Gerry McCann talking to another person who was pushing a pram in the street (albeit stationary) at the time, so he could not have been that person, unless Jane Tanners account is a fabrication...
If both sightings have been reported accurately, then of course it is possible that the disappearence of Maddie from apartment 5A involved at least two persons, one of which matches the description of Gerry McCann. If true, the sighting of the man seen carrying the child by the Smiths, could have been Gerry McCann, heading down towards the doctors and coastline...
I walked various routes from apartment 5A down towards the location of the Smith sighting and doctors premises, and it seemed feasible to me that the person seen carrying that child in his arms could have been Gerry McCann, the timing of the Smith sighting being the only drawback to it having been him, but this only becomes a problem if you accept the accounts of other witnesses made by members of the so called tapas group, who place McCann at the restuarant at the time given for the sighting of the man who resembled McCann with a child in his arms as reported by the Smith family upon thier return to Ireland...
On the last day of my visit to Portugal, I identified the grounds of the derelict building opposite the church, as the most likliest place for Maddie to have been taken and her body to have been concealed - I will give my reasons for why I came to this conclusiion at a later date, if anyone is interested...
