The claim that there were half hourly checks carried out at apartment 5a where entry and exit was by way of the patio door on the poolside door cannot be remotely true - if any checks were made after 8.30pm when the McCann Parents left to dine out, any entry into apartment 5a would have required such a person to enter the premises through the road side door and require a key to unlock it when going in, and locking the door when exiting!
Consequently, the custodian(s) of the apartment keys to the front road side door at all times after the McCann Parents left the apartment at around 8.30pm, that evening - until the moment Madeleine's fate was alerted by one party or the other...
Kate McCann cannot have been the person who stumbled upon the fact that Madeleine was missing from apartment 5a after 10pm on the evening 3rd May 2007, because her disappearance was almost definitely known about prior to 9.30pm (the commotion about a missing 3 year old girl belonging to an Ocean Club couple, witnessed by an executive at around 9.15pm). By 9.30pm, the three couples who had been sitting at a table had all scattered from the tapas bar leaving articles of clothing behind which by 9.45pm Diane Webster was sat alone at the same table. The missing child being spoken about earlier (9.15pm) was known to belong to one of the three couples mentioned..
We can be be certain that included amongst the three couples at the table that Gerry McCann and Kate McCann were one of those couples..
So, where did Gerry McCann and Kate McCann disappear to by 9.30pm?
Where did Mathew Oldfield and Rachel Mampilly disappear to by 9.30pm?
Where did David Payne and Fiona Payne disappear to by 9.30pm?
Not to be overlooked, is the fact that by 9pm Mathew Oldfield left the tapas bar restaurant to go and hurry the Payne contingent along, because they were booked in at the same table as Gerry, Kate, Rachel and Mathew, since dinner was due to be served from 9.15pm onward. Diane Webster accompanied David and Fiona Payne when they eventually arrived at the tapas bar.
In between Mathew Oldfield leaving the tapas bar to hurry up the Payne's, and the Payne contingent arriving there (a few minutes after 9pm), David Payne had listened at the shutter of the bedroom window behind which were sleeping the three McCann children. Additionally, Mathew Oldfield upon meeting the Payne's on route to dine out, he went beyond the point where their paths crossed, and he went to the same shutter to the bedroom window which David Payne had only moments beforehand had also listened at? We then find that Mathew Oldfield returns to the tapas bar restaurant and tells Gerry McCann that he has listened at the shutter of Madeleine's bedroom window suggesting that there be no need for Gerry McCann to do his 9pm check as a result. We find out that Gerry McCann takes offence at being told by Matthew Oldfield that he had been taking it upon himself to care about the welfare of the McCann siblings..
So, Gerry left the tapas bar and went to check the apartment 5a himself, offending Mathew in the process. Gerry called this his 9pm check, but it could have been around 9.05pm by the time he went to apartment 5a...
GerryMcCanns reaction could have been because prior to Mathew mentioning that he had listened at Madeleine's bedroom window, so too had David Payne who must have told Gerry McCann about this. Not surprisingly, from Gerry McCanns perspective being told by two different people that independently listened at the same shuttered bedroom window! Little wonder that he might have become suspicious..
We know that at 9.30pm, Diane Webster, was not present at the same table! But by 9.45pm, she was there, looking after the table and private possessions belonging to the absent couples (above).
Did Russell O'Brien / Jane Tanner sit at a table of their own?
