It was at around 10pm, on Tuesday 1st May 2007 that the McCann parents and other adult group members left the tapas bar restaurant and went down to a pub near the coast, for late night revelling. This was the very same evening that Mrs Fenn overheard a child crying in the apartment (5A) below hers. The cries of the child continued for a constant uninterrupted period of about one hour and fifthteen minutes. Mrs Fenn recollected that the crying only stopped after she heard the patio door of the McCann apartment slid open, which coincided with the child calling out 'Daddy, daddy, daddy'...
This incident occurred 48 hours before Kate McCann alerted that Madeleine had been taken by 'them'...
For some as yet unexplained reason, there appears no account from the McCann parents or their colleagues regarding the late night visit to the bar, nor any mention of the time the group left..
This to my mind is a critical part of this mystery regarding what really did happen to Madeleine McCann, and more importantly when she died...
It is possible that when Mrs Fenn overheard the patio door of the McCann apartment sliding open at about 11.15pm on that Tuesday, 1st May 2007, that she mistook someone as one of the parents, simply because the crying ceased, and a child's voice called out, 'Daddy, daddy, daddy'..
It might depend upon whether or not, the child called out 'Daddy' in the context of a greeting, or if someone was frightening and hurting her..
What time did the McCann group leave the pub, and make their way up hill to their respective apartments?
With this in mind, I feel that Mrs Fenns account regarding the crying child, for a constant period of one hour and fifthteen minutes, which only stopped once she heard the patio door slide open, linked to the crying stopping and a child calling out 'Daddy, daddy, daddy' could be the missing piece in the jigsaw..
If the McCann parents did not return to their apartment at the time their patio door slid open at about 11.15pm, in accordance with Mrs Fenns account, then it was someone else who either left or entered the McCann apartment. If this was true, it remains possible that Madeleine was sexually abused and then killed off late on the evening of Tuesday 1st May 2007. A fact not known about by the McCann parents until breakfast time on the following morning, Wednesday 2nd May 2007...