The case of Madeleine McCann

[nugnug]

i have never heard this before who were the smith contingent.

[tyler]

Personally,I have always been suspicious of Tanner and O'Briens activity. Their child was allegedly sick,and he leaves the child to return to the Tapas bar to inform Tanner so that she can take over with the child.They had mobiles! Why didn't he call her and wait in the apartment for her to return instead of leaving their sick child to possibly choke on its own vomit? And I agree with Joanne.How could Tanner have possibly seen that a child had on pink pyjamas and even describe the pattern from the distance she allegedly was from the child? She must have known what Maddie was wearing!

[nugnug]

was jane tanner the first person to raise the alarm.

[tyler]

No,it was Kate that found her missing around 10pm and raised the alarm. Police,however,were not called until 10.40pm.

[nugnug]

from watching the clip that was posted i got the impression that an abduction had already been reported before katie mcann discovered her daughter was missing.

[mike tesko]

Lets take an alternative look, using the following criterior:-

(1) - Smith contingent sighting of man seen carrying child after 9:30pm, was not Gerry McCan, but child man was carrying in his arms was Maddie...

(2) - which male members of the tapas 9 group were absent from the tapas bar at that stage...

Four suspects:-

(a) - Gerry McCann
(b) - David Payne
(c) - Mathew Oldfield
(d) - Russell O'Brien

[nugnug]

it all depends on weather contingent are reliable witnesses or not.

[Jo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7106086.stm
JANE TANNER
Friend of the McCaans
I think the starters were about to arrive so I thought oh, I'll go and do a check in sort of 20 minutes or so before last check. So I thought I'll go and do a check before the food arrives. So I just walked out of the restaurant, up the hill, I passed Gerry who was talking to one of his tennis friends at the time. And then after I'd past Gerry, at the top of the road I just saw somebody walking across the top of the road I just saw somebody walking across the top of the road so I was a reasonable distance away from them, and that person was carrying a child. He was about probably 5'8 tall, he was taller than me but not 6' and so between those two. He was wearing quite a lot of clothes and that's one thing in hindsight again I think was quite odd because tourists when they're abroad, Brits abroad would always have cropped trousers or shorts or something, and he had a sort of a big heavy jacket and trousers on, and hair.. the one thing that I remember a lot is the hair. He did seem to have quite a lot of dark, reasonably-long-to-the-neck hair. Well I could see.. I could tell it was a child, and I could see the feet and... feet and the bottom of the pyjamas, and I just thought that child's not got any shoes on because you could see the feet, and it was quite a cold night in Portugal in May it's not actually that warm, and I'd got a big jumper on, and I can remember thinking oh that parent is not a particularly good parent, they've not wrapped them up.

Bit of a contradiction, is it not?

[mike tesko]

Lets take an alternative look, using the following criterior:-

(1) - Smith contingent sighting of man seen carrying child after 9:30pm, was not Gerry McCan, but child man was carrying in his arms was Maddie...

(2) - which male members of the tapas 9 group were absent from the tapas bar at that stage...

Four suspects:-

(a) - Gerry McCann
(b) - David Payne
(c) - Mathew Oldfield
(d) - Russell O'Brien

Two of the above four were absent from the tapas bar, around the time the Smith contingent saw the man carrying  of staying at his apartment to look after an unwell childa child in his arms heading away from the general direction of apartment 5A, One of these two males rethe pretenseurned to the tapas bar, whilst the other was absent on the pretense of tending to an unwell child...

[Jo]

Mike, I'm with you on this one, I don't know the logistics of what and how it happened but it's all within this group of people and I think someone will blab at some point and then we'll know, perhaps fear of retribution or/and the law and/or loyalty is keeping them quiet

[nugnug]

has anybody actully got the statements of smith contingent.

[mike tesko]

Two of the above four were absent from the tapas bar, around the time the Smith contingent saw the man carrying  of staying at his apartment to look after an unwell childa child in his arms heading away from the general direction of apartment 5A, One of these two males rethe pretenseurned to the tapas bar, whilst the other was absent on the pretense of tending to an unwell child...

[Jo]

has anybody actully got the statements of smith contingent.

http://www.mccannfiles.com/id162.html

[nugnug]

so he dident actually say he saw Jerry McCann at all.

[mike tesko]

The sighting by the Smith family of the man seen carrying a child in his arms, places the person seen carrying Maddie heading in the general direection of the derelict building across the street from the church...