Linked to this, is the fact that by 9.30pm, a couple were overheard to be discussing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann by a tapas restaurant chef..
That couple couldn't have been the McCanns because they were never alone at a table together throughout the whole evening, there were always the other 7 tapas group members there with them at one time or another! The couple who were overheard to be talking about a missing child who had been taken has got to be the Carpenter couple! Otherwise, the McCanns would be in serious trouble, because they would have been found out promoting two occasions (9.30pm and 10pm) when Madeleine's disappearance had reportedly been alerted, half an hour or so a part from eachother!
Then again, if it had been the McCann couple who the chef had overheard talking about a child being taken at or by 9.30am, that half hour period between 9.30pm, and 10pm becomes a significant period during which it gave the McCann parents, one or other, or both, to get rid of Madeleine's body before they officially raised the alarm by way of Kate at 10pm!