By 9.15 - 9.20pm on evening of Thursday 3rd May 2007, a couple believed to have been Steven and Charlotte Carpenter already knew that Madeleine McCann was going to be reported missing, some 40 / 45 minutes before Kate McCann officially alerted that Madeleine had been taken (10pm). An Ocean club executive overheard the couple openly speaking about it 10 / 15 minutes before the illusionary 9.30pm check of apartment 5a, by either Kate McCann, Gerry McCann, Russell O'Brien, Mathew Oldfield, or Jane Tanner...
How could this have been possible!
A barman told the PJ in a witness statement that by 9.30 - 9.45pm, the table where three couples had been sitting eating dinner earlier was completely abandoned, and the only things still present were articles and items of clothing belonging to members of the group by that stage. Another employee confirms that at 9.45pm, there was only Diane Webster sitting at the table, everybody else had scattered and presumably returned to their respective apartments, or as the case may be were all either outside or inside apartment 5A..
So, how could Kate McCann have left the tapas restaurant at 10pm, if she had already left the tapas bar some 15 minutes or so earlier? How could Kate have discovered Madeleine has having been taken after she arrived there after 10pm, and return back to the tapas bar afterwards to inform everyone that Madeleine had been taken? There was only Diane Webster at the table in the tapas restaurant after 9.45pm, onward...
The discovery by Kate McCann of Madeleine supposedly having been taken when she returned to apartment 5a at 10pm stands shattered, she didn't hear the bedroom door slam, or the curtains at the window 'Whoosh' open, and she didn't see the bedroom window slid open, or the metal shutter on the outside of the same window raised, or check everywhere inside the apartment looking for Madeleine before dashing back to the tapas bar to raise the alarm, because the couple who were sat at a table on the concourse of the tapas bar at 9.15 - 9.20pm had already been alerted to Maddie having gone, or going to be reported as missing...
That couple, were almost certainly Charlotte and Steven Carpenter, who by their own account left the tapas bar that evening between 9.15 - 9.30pm to go back to their apartment, and during which time Mrs Carpenter recalled how she overheard someone calling out the name, ' Madeleine, Madeliene'..
It doesn't take a great leap of faith by anyone to try and work out who had been calling out Madeleine's name, just as the Carpenter couple were crossing the street yards away from the patio door of 5a on the poolside of the premises...
First things first, trying to establish a reliable timeline, into which and by what means the Carpenter couple knew about Madeleine McCann going missing by 9.15 - 9.20pm, them leaving the tapas bar, and once a decision can be reached as to the actual time they left the tapas bar, which of the so called tapas 9 group had been absent from the tapas bar when the Carpenters left, and Charlotte Carpenter heard the person calling out Madeleine's name as she and her husband crossed the street..
If we set the time at 9.15pm when the Ocean Club Executive overheard the couple openly talking about Maddie having gone missing, and we say that the Carpenters left the tapas bar at about 9.20pm., there were only two possible suspects who on their own accounts were both absent from the tapas bar at the time Charlotte Carpenter was crossing the street and she heard a voice, 'Madeleine, Madeleine'...
We do not know whether the voice which was calling out Madeleine's name, was a male, or a female voice (but I presume Mrs Carpenter knows)..
Jane Tanner and Russell O'Brien were the only two people absent from the tapas bar when the Carpenter couple left the tapas bar to go back to their apartment! Prior to this, only Gerry McCann had been back to his apartment (5a), returning to the tapas bar by 9.15pm, or thereabouts, opening it up for he being the source of the information that Madeleine had gone missing, or that she was going to be reported missing shortly..