The case of Madeleine McCann

[mike tesko]

Why did Kate McCann say in her witness statement that she made on the first full day of the police investigation (4th May 2007) that 'Russell O'Brien' had already been inside the McCann apartment before it was time (9.30pm) for her to go and check on her own children herself, yet the narrative has since changed dramatically into Russell and Mathew had offered to check on the McCann siblings because they were going to do checks of their own back at their apartments, and that this took place post 9.30pm, it could not have happened anytime sooner?

[mike tesko]

If Russell O'Brien and Gerry McCann left the tapas bar at 9pm to do their respective checks of the children in both of their apartments, and these checks were scheduled to take place every 30 minutes or so, then both Gerry McCann and Russell O'Brien should have both been back at the tapas bar restaurant before 9.30pm, not afterwards...

This impacts upon the story introduced by Jane Tanner whereby she states that somewhere around 9.10pm, or thereabouts, she had left the tapas bar because she was worried that Gerry McCann was gone a long time and had not returned to the tapas bar. How she had then seen Gerry talking to someone in the street without him seeing her, and at the same time she introduces (somewhat conveniently) the sighting of 'TANNERMAN' carrying a child off in his arms...

She then, presumably went back to her own apartment to see where Russell O'Brien was?

Or, had Russell O'Brien already returned to the tapas bar from his 9pm check, but if that be the case then why does Kate McCann mention in her first witness statement that she was about to go and do her 9.30pm check of her own children back in apartment 5A when Russell O'Brien told her that on his way back from checking his child at his own apartment that he had gone into the McCanns apartment (5A) and listened at the open children's bedroom door and had not heard a peep from any of the children, and that everything was more or less in order back at apartment 5A, so Kate need not concern herself with doing the 9.30pm check...

[mike tesko]

Gerry McCann must have already returned from his own 9pm check to the tapas bar restaurant before Russell O'Brien did, and this throws up a number of questions concerning when Jane Tanner said she had left the tapas bar restaurant, and what she saw in the street at that time (around 9.10pm), for example she claims to have seen Gerry McCann talking to Jess Wilkes on the road close to the McCann apartment, whilst at the same time, she introduces 'TANNERMAN', into her account..

But, what Jane Tanner and Russell O'Brien fail to mention, is what happened when she arrived at her own apartment? Was Russell O'Brien present there? Or, as the case may be, did she go into the McCann apartment to supervise the removal of Maddie's body?

Now, if her partner Russell O'Brien had already returned back to the tapas bar before she had left there, then how could Jane Tanner have seen Gerry McCann in the street at about 9.10pm talking with Jess Wilkes? Impossible! According to the routine adopted by the McCann and O'Brien / Tanner with regards to the regular checking of their children back in their apartments, one person left the tapas bar after the return of the other, or vice versa, at 30 minute intervals or thereabouts! So if Russell O'Brien was back at the tapas bar by 9.30pm (and not leaving there at that time), does it mean that Jane Tanner did not leave the tapas bar until after 9.30pm, and was that because it was her turn to check on her child?

Or, did she leave the tapas bar at 9.10pm, like she maintains?

Why didn't Gerry McCann notice Jane Tanner in the road when he was talking to Jess Wilkes?

[mike tesko]

I think the claim that the O'Brien / Tanner child was sick or bedridden on that evening, is nothing but a false flag, designed to remove any suspicion that they could have played some part or other in the proceedings. In particular, it created an explanation for their movements back and forth from the tapas bar to their apartment - but what they are saying cannot be verified by any independent source..

[mike tesko]

I have read somewhere that one or other of the tapas nine group caused Gerry McCann some consternation by telling both Kate and he, that everything was OK back at the McCann apartment because the person concerned had been listening outside the Children's bedroom window ( situated on the roadside of the premises)..

I think this reaction by Gerry McCann was in relation to what David Payne had said to Kate and Gerry, whilst all three of them were at the tapas bar..

Was this the reason why Gerry McCann did the 9pm check ( for peace of mind), or did what David Payne had spoken about relate in some way to the time when Russell O'Brien had gone into the McCann apartment (5A) and listened at the open bedroom doorway, just before O'Brien returned to the tapas bar just before or about 9.30pm?

In other words..

Did Gerry McCann return to his apartment after 9.30pm?

[mike tesko]

Did Gerry McCann return to his apartment after 9.30pm?

That is to say , did he go there before Kate McCann went there at 10pm?

[mike tesko]

If he did, and it was in response to what Russell O'Brien had told both Kate and himself just before 9.30pm when it was time for Kate to take her turn of checking the children in apartment 5A, then everything hangs in the balance...

Why did Jane Tanner say in one of her witness statements, or accounts, that she went out from the tapas bar restaurant to see what was keeping Gerry (McCann) so long? I mean, honestly what concern was it of Jane Tanner's (or for that matter, Russell O'Brien) that Gerry McCann had been gone from the tapas bar for such a long period that it compelled Jane Tanner to go and find out all for herself?

[mike tesko]

If, as the various narratives foretell, Jane Tanner was worried about the length of time that Gerry McCann was absent from the tapas bar restaurant, then why when she finally decided to leave the tapas bar herself, and she sees Gerry McCann in the street talking to someone or other, does she not at least say 'hi, Gerry', or at least make some reference in that particular version of her evidence to the fact that she understood at that / this time what had been keeping Gerry?

[mike tesko]

What is really and truly important at this juncture, is the true reason behind why Jane Tanner left the tapas bar restaurant when she did...

[mike tesko]

What is really and truly important at this juncture, is the true reason behind why Jane Tanner left the tapas bar restaurant when she did...

Her sick child, bedridden, was not the reason..

[mike tesko]

In her mind, at that particular moment was 'what was keeping Gerry McCann so long at his apartment'?

[mike tesko]

And, the very reason why Jane Tanner was so preoccupied about this issue was / is?

[mike tesko]

And, the very reason why Jane Tanner was so preoccupied about this issue was / is?

Gerry McCanns reaction to learning just before 9.30pm, that Russell O'Brien having dared to enter the McCann apartment, with mention of the children's bedroom door being open, etc, without either Kate's or his own knowledge or consent must have set alarm bells ringing in Gerry McCanns mind, irrespective of whether or not, he (Gerry) already knew that Madeleine was dead or alive by that / this stage!

Intrusion..

[mike tesko]

Hence, why he left the tapas bar around that / this time (after 9.30pm) to double check on his children and their apartment (5A)...

[mike tesko]

Hence, why he left the tapas bar around that / this time (after 9.30pm) to double check on his children and their apartment (5A)...

Gerry McCanns reaction, to what Russell O'Brien told both him and Kate, that he had dared to enter the McCann apartment (5A) didn't go unnoticed by Jane Tanner, who must have been furious that Gerry McCann did not trust her partner (O'Brien) - so that right up until the moment she decides to leave the tapas bar, the longer and longer, Gerry McCanns return to the bar progresses, the more she thought , 'hang on a minute' and 'hope nothing's wrong', that could be pinned on my partner?