Red flag (22) - In view of the uncertainty regarding whether or not Gerald McCann returned to the tapas bar restuarant at 9.20pm, from his 9.05pm visit and check of his children and apartment 5A, and from then on that he remained in the vicinity of the restuarant continuously until Kate McCann went to do her 10pm check of the same, only for her to allegedly rush back to the restuarant to give the alert that someone (they) had taken Madeliene from their unlocked apartment, to be pondered why after appearing upset at 9.05pm when Mathew allegedly told him that everything was quite back at the McCann apartment. It is much more likely that Mathew Oldfield told Gerald McCann that he had entered apartment 5A via the unlocked poolside patio door, went into the children's bedroom but only found the McCann twins sleeping in their cots. He would have also mentioned that he had looked everywhere, the living room, the bathroom / toilet and the parents bedroom, and that because Oldfield was informing him loud enough for other tapas bar restaurant customers to overhear. The McCann parents knew that Madeliene was not present back in the apartment since around midnight on the evening of 1st May 2007, to which Mrs Fenn alluded to when she heard a child crying continuously in the apartment beneath hers (apartment 5A), and that it lasted from about 10.30pm until around 11.45pm, when she thought the parents must have returned because she thought she heard the patio door on the poolside of apartment 5A slide open, which coincided with the crying stopping, and a childs voice calling out, 'Daddy daddy, daddy'. .
It is easy in the cold light of day, to see how Mrs Fenn mistakenly thought it had been the parents who had returned at around 11.45pm to apartment 5A because of the noise made of a patio door being slid open. We do not know why or how Mrs Fenn thought that the two parents had returned at that time, but she must have blindly overheard two distinctive adult voices, of a man, and a woman, without so much as physically seeing both of them...
It wasn't until the evening of the 3rd May 2007 that the McCann parents decided to leave the poolside patio door unlocked, with its metal shutter raised up. They did this after Madeliene went missing on the late evening of 1st May 2007. Albeit, I don't think they realised she had been taken, or had gone missing until breakfast time on 2nd May. In hindsite, how had the two adults who had entered apartment 5A through the poolside patio door, if the McCann parents hadn't left it unlocked and open, and would not do so for a further two days (evening of 3rd May 2007)..
So, if the McCanns did not leave the poolside door unlocked and open until the evening of 3rd May, then neither the McCann parents, or an adult male, and an adult female, could have entered apartment 5A as a result of sliding open the poolside patio door. It is worth noting that in Mrs Fenns account regarding the alleged return of the parents back into apartment 5A at around 11.45pm on the evening of 1st May 2007, does not include any mention of apartment 5A's poolside patio door being slid open one way once, and back again when it was closed. In all these circumstances, it seems to me that the crying child stopping occurred either side of the noise of a sliding patio door, and a childs voice calling out 'Daddy, daddy, daddy', occurred in that particular sequence of events, linked to a couple who had been inside apartment 5A all the while a child had been crying! The solitary sliding noise of apartment 5A's poolside patio door must have been whoever the man and woman were, who took Madeleine with them leaving the patio door unlocked and open. In other words, at 11.45pm on the evening of 1st May 2007, someone left the McCanns apartment taking Madeliene with them, and that this goes someway toward explaining that it couldn't have been the McCanns returning back from Chaplins bar on that occasion, because they would have not left the patio door unlocked and open with their three siblings inside, and they go off galavanting all the way down to Chaplins bar! What this implies, is that the man and woman who left apartment 5A at around 11.45pm, taking Madeleine with them, had entered the apartment via the lockable roadside door rarlier at a time which coincided with the McCann parents and their friends leaving the tapas bar restuarant at around 10pm (after eating their prebooked evening meal) and instead of going back to their respective apartments they turned right instead of left when they exited the small reception entrance and they must have been seen going further away from their apartments by a considerably larger distance than between their apartments and the Ocean club tapas bar. With this in mind how could any member of that group safely and legally check whether or not, their children wouldn't come to any harm!
Whoever the couple were/are, they must have had a key. It might possibly have been a pass key used by a member of the Ocean club staff. I seem to recollect that a security key kept in a safe in the Maintenance Department went missing around the time of Madeliene McCanns ordeal and displaced disappearance (1st May -3rd May)...
