I don't know whether Stephen Carpenter had time to abduct Madeleine, dispose of the body, all with his wife in situ..https://mmknowthetruth.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-eight-independent-alarm-witnesses.html
The Carpenters didn't have their children with them when they booked the table at 7pm for their evening meal, the restaurant register confirms this not to be true, there were only 2 members of the carpenter family in the tapas restaurant that evening, and Stephen Carpenter and his wife dined one and a half hours prior to Kate and Gerry McCann leaving their apartment by the patio door on the poolside of the apartment, something which from the vantage point of their table in the tapas restaurant the Carpenter couple would easily have been able to observe!
Take the Carpenter children out of the equation altogether, as though they were never there with the Carpenters on that occasion. Let's just say, they either left their kids at home alone, or they made arrangements for somebody to keep an eye on them that evening! I am satisfied that the carpenter children were not at the tapas bar on that second occasion that the Carpenters visited the tapas bar/ restaurant that evening! On tge first occasion they would have attended high tea, went back to their apartment and after making arrangements for their two children to be looked after (or simply left home alone) the Carpenters went out on their own to dine back at the tapas bar from 7pm onward...
Their position at their table afforded them a bird's eye view of the patio door on the poolside of the apartment block where the McCann's and children were staying!
I am not suggesting that they sat there throughout the whole of the next hour and a half waiting to see if the McCanns left their apartment by that patio door, since I am mindful of Robert Murat's mother seeing a woman who was dressed in plum purple standing on the pavement on the opposite side of the street to where the gated concrete steps lead up to the veranda belonging to the patio doors of the McCanns apartment! I have good reason to believe that the woman whom Mrs Murat had seen standing there at about 8pm (half an hour before the McCanns actually left there apartment at 8.30pm) was none other than Stephen Carpentes wife. She may well have been stood there intending to confront the McCanns about leaving three young children alone I an unlocked apartment, as a result of the previous evening when Madeleine and Sean had been crying for about an hour whilst their parents were out and about gallavanting - I believe that it was the Carpenters who had entered the mcCanns apartment on the previous evening when Madeleine and Sean had been crying, and that Mrs Carpenter had decided to confront the McCann parents if she caught them slipping out of their apartment when she was stood there in the street!
However, she must have got fed up of waiting, or that she would return to the table where her husband was still sitting, and observe the patio door of the mcCann apartment from that vantage point!
After the arrival of Kate and Gerry at the pre-booked dinner table at 8.30pm, it might have been the case that the carpenters hadn't caught the McCann parents leaving their apartment by the patio door on the poolside of their apartment! This might have been the case because at around 9.00 O'clock when Gerry McCann got up from the table to go and do his check, he entered the apartment by the road side door, suggesting that on this particular evening the McCanns might have locked their children in! Nevertheless, all such thoughts must have been dispelled from their minds when at about 9.30pm, Russell O'BRIEN and Mathew Oldfield got up from the table at the tapas restaurant and volunteered to check on the McCann kids, since from their vantage point at their dining table, they then saw the two volunteers slide open the patio door and enter, only to exit moments later and pulling the sliding patio door closed, before walking off the veranda, down the concrete steps and out of sight!
I am convinced that the CARPENTER COUPLE, observed the O'Brien/Odfield check of apartment 5A, and that soon after one of them returned back to the restaurant, having heard one of the two volunteers say that everything was fine back inside the McCann Apartment, and that the reason why Russell had not come back was because his daughter was sick and he had stayed with her, I think the Carpenters took the opportunity to leave the tapas restaurant, and that between them they abducted Madeleine from the mcCann apartment, in the following manner:-
