I think that Mathew Oldfield's two different versions regarding how he carried out the 9.30pm check of the McCann apartment, where he makes mention of listening from outside the patio door, or due to listening at the bedroom door, the purpose of introducing details of this second check of apartment 5A at 9.30pm, was solely with a view of providing Gerald McCann with an alibi..
Bear in mind the following - if Gerald McCann was upset about the fact that Mathew Oldfield had taken it upon himself to check the McCann apartment (5A) at 9pm, why (if he had returned to the restuarant) would he agree to Mathew Oldfield and Russell O'Brien doing a follow up check, at say 9.30pm?
My view, is that he wouldn't, but he had no say in the matter because Gerald McCann did not return to the tapas restuarant from his own 9.05pm check. He wasn't present when (if the truth be known) Mathew Oldfield and Russell O'Brien volunteered to do Kate McCanns 9.30pm check of apartment 5A that evening. Let's hit the nail on the head, all the other members, a part from Gerald McCann (and perhaps one or two others) all left the tapas restuarant along with Mathew Oldfield and Russell O'Brien at 9.30pm...
Why did they all leave the restuarant at that time?
Well, because of what Mathew Oldfield found inside apartment 5A at the time of his 9pm check, and Gerald McCanns visit there at 9.05pm, plus the fact that he did not return to the tapas restuarant at all, and that customers in the tapas bar were talking about Madeleine missing from the McCann apartment from 9.15pm, onwards - everyone left the restuarant and went to the McCann apartment to get an accurate update..
Kate McCann was amongst the mob that left the tapas restuarant at 9.30pm, it stands to reason therefore, that she wasn't at the restuarant at any stage after 9.30pm, and that she could not have been present in the restuarant until 10pm, at which stage it has been claimed that she left the restuarant to go to the McCann apartment where she allegedly discovered Madeleine to have been taken...