Do you now believe that Maddies parents are now not responsible?
I have made out the case for the parents to have been responsible, and now I am trying to make out the case for Stephen Carpenter to be responsible..
He remains my no.1 suspect, outside the tapas nine...
Everything that Stephen Carpenter says he did and when he did it does not add up, and the McCanns and their friends make no references at all to him, which is astonishing since Carpenter claims he was playing tennis with Gerry McCann from 2pm onwards on the afternoon of Thursday 3rd May 2007, but Gerry McCann did not attend the tennis courts until 3pm on that date, and he was accompanied by Kate McCann on that occasion and they played tennis together for about half an hour until 3.30pm, at which point Gerry then practiced tennis with the on site tennis coach! Kate went for her run along the beach, etc...
So, here we have Stephen Carpenter making up a narrative, when all along he hadn't been playing tennis with Gerry McCann at all that afternoon! He was obviously observing Gerry and Kate McCann in his role of a would be abductor! In his statement Carpenter makes reference to taking and collecting the children from the creches on that particular afternoon either side of the tennis session he claimed he had in-between with Gerry McCann, but not only did Gerry McCann not play tennis with Stephen Carpenter at all that particular afternoon, but neither of the two Carpenter children were booked in and out of either the jellyfish creche, or the lobster creche - so, once again, Carpenter is responsible for introducing a false narrative! This theme continues into the evening, when he claims that his two children were present when he and his wife attended the tapas restaurant for their pre-booked 7pm evening meal, but the dining register shows that when Carpenter arrived for that meal there were only two reservations made! It gets worse, because Stephen Carpenter said in his witness statement that when they arrived for that 7pm dinner reservation, that the McCann parents and all of their friends were all already present there, despite the McCanns not arriving there until 8.30pm, and some of their group did not arrive until much later on. We then have Carpenter saying that he and his family left the tapas restaurant / bar between 9.15pm - 9.30pm. well that was in-between the time Gerry McCann returned to the tapas bar after his 9.05pm check, and possibly prior to the check made by Russel O'Brien and Matt Oldfield at about 9.30pm (although I am prepared to concede that they could have left after O'Brien and Oldfield did their 9.30pm check! Rather more worryingly, Carpenter introduces his wife telling him the next morning that as they were leaving the Ocean club small reception, and crossing the street close to the McCann Apartment, that she had heard someone calling out 'Madeleine, Madeleine'...
This is significant, because it suggests that Carpenters wife witnessed the voice of the abductor who took Madeleine McCann out of the McCann Apartment (5A) at that exact moment in time!
We do not yet know what his wife, Christine Elizabeth Carpenter said in her witness statement, all we have is Stephen Carpenters version of the events! We don't even know whether or not Carpenters wife even made a witness statement, if not this should be a priority for the police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, since she may hold critical information capable of identifying the abductor!
Stephen Carpenter needs to be re-arrested and interviewed under caution as a suspect, and he needs to be questioned on specific points, such as (a) had Gerry McCann returned to the tapas bar before he and his family left the tapas bar area that evening? (b) had O'Brien and Oldfield left to do their check prior to the Carpenters leaving the tapas bar? (c) had Oldfield returned to the tapas bar after the 9.30pm check prior to the Carpenters exiting?
He claimed that upon he and his family leaving the tapas bar that evening (9.15pm to 9.30pm) that they had gone straight back to their apartment (FP02) without going anywhere else, but I believe he is lying - I am concerned that he says he had his two children with him at the 7pm dinner reservation, not because they hadn't been there at that time, but because the evening creche which catered for children of guests staying in the complex between 7.30pm and 11.30pm, and that this caused something of a dilemma for the Carpenters, who had to hang onto their two kids for half an hour until the evening creche would be open and ready to take children in for the evening (7.30pm, onwards). With this in mind I think the Carpenters had their two children with them until the evening creche opened its doors at 7.30pm...
At this time, I believe that the Carpenters left the tapas restaurant and that Stephen Carpenter took both of his children to the evening creche whilst his wife Christine stood on the pavement close to the McCann Apartment, she was the woman dressed in the plum purple dress seen by Jenny Murat at around 8pm, standing in the street appearing to be looking towards the McCann Apartment. Shortly afterwards Jez Wilkins saw the same woman wearing the purple dress stood on the pavement on the opposite side of the street to the McCann Apartment as if looking at the target premises! But I think her presence there may have had something to do with her husband taking their two children to the evening creche which is located close by on the far corner of the roadside of the apartment block where the tapas nine were all staying!
I think that 'Tannerman' may have been Stephen Carpenter carrying his 18 month old toddler after he collected the child from the evening creche. It is also worth noting that by the time Jane Tanner entered the street and saw 'Tannerman' that the woman who had been stood there wearing the purple dress (as seen by Jenny Murat and Jez Wilkins) was no longer present! I put this down to her having collected the other Carpenter child who had been collected before Stephen, or as the case may be, shortly behind him...
I think the Scotland Yard investigation has identified Stephen Carpenter as the person who was seen by Jane Tanner, and that Stephen Carpenter was / is 'Tannerman', supported by the fact that at sometime after 7.30pm the Carpenters had booked their two children into the evening creche, and that Stephen Carpenter booked the 18 month old toddler out of the creche around the time that Jane Tanner had seen him walking off in the direction of the Carpenter apartment (FP02) situated next door to Jenny Murat's villa!
For this reason, I think that on this occasion, 'Tannerman' wasn't carrying off Madeleine McCann in his arms, he was carrying his own child which he had collected momentarily beforehand from the evening creche..
After they put their children to bed, I believe that the Carpenter couple went to check on the McCann children, in the same way they had probably done on the previous evening when Madeleine and Sean had been crying for a period of about an hour without the parents returning to check on them! At this time, I believe that Madeleine awoke and that Stephen Carpenter tried to pacify Madeleine, by calling out her name twice, 'Madeleine, Madeleine', whilst he removed her from the apartment! This almost certainly took place inbetween the Oldfield / O'Brien check at 9.30pm, and Kate McCanns check at about 10pm..
The next point of contention which I feel raises a flag of suspicion on his part was that on the following morning he claims that Robert Murat introduced himself to him, and that he in turn introduced Robert Murat to Gerry McCann, on the basis that Murat was claiming he could speak fluent Portuguese and English, and that it would be handy interpreting between the McCanns and the local police. At this time Stephen Carpenter says that when he told Robert Murat that a little three and a half year old girl had gone missing, Murat had responded by saying that he had a three and a half year old daughter himself who was living back in England without showing any sort of concern for the child who had gone missing, or the parents who were suffering for the loss!
