In Kate McCanns account about how Gerry had lowered the shutter of the bedroom window after finding Maddie gone, and how he had gone outside and raised up the steel shutter - this could not have happened, because the shutter at the bedroom window is fitted with a safety device to prevent anyone opening the shutter from outside the room. In order to open the shutter, you need to be inside the bedroom and you need to be manipulating a strap on the right hand side of the window which you need to pull away from the wall slightly and drag downwards - this will raise the steel shutter on the outside of the bedroom window. As far as is known, the steel shutter at the bedroom window, was not faulty and was in perfect working order at the time of the alleged disappearance of Maddie from apartment 5a...
I am returning to Portugal next week...
