Sorry, firstly if I have jumped in and this has in the past 15 pages been discussed. I have followed the case from almost the next day it happened. The twists the turns.
But what always seemed impossible of the jemmied\forced\broken shutter, SELDOM do you see mentioned the window? you know those things made of glass.
It was a chilly evening, does everyone assume the window was 'open'. OK, or what about locked?
Why was there no broken glass? Big risk forcing a shutter to find a locked window!!
Whilst all the speculation took a very slow way forward back on the MF in those early days, bit by bit things were teased out and apart.
So WHAT ABOUT THE WINDOW!!
Everyone who had the opportunity to read, ''Beyond the smears'' all became EXPLAINED and clear.
The Times on Sunday (eeemmm sound familiar) David Smith 16 December 2007, whilst still under judicial secrecy.
Scroll to just over half way.
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id96.html''There was a latch lock on the sliding glass window, and the McCanns thought, but could not be sure, that they had locked it at the start of the holiday. They would later discover it was common for
cleaners to open the shutters and windows to give the rooms an airing, so there was no way of knowing whether the window was locked that night or not and no forensic trace to indicate where and how an abductor had gone in and out. They could easily have used the front door, perhaps even had access to a key. ''
The one thing about this article, and please read and if it's some time since you last visited it, squeeze your buttocks and read it again.
The article is worthy of a thread of it's own, as it was in the beginning, so it is now.
But since there is no need of a break in, in the timeline whilst Mr McC stood outside chatting to JW the relevance of the shutter, or the potential abductor already in situ and hiding has become redundant. Since JT's sighting discounted as a parent with a child (oddly walking in the wrong direction from the sleep in creche)
The abductor so casually could have walked in and out of the patio door which was unlocked but would find difficulty in closing it, whilst holding a child & fiddling with all the layers of curtains, or merely walk out of the front main door, which has NEVER been established whether it was deadlock thus preventing exit (read JT's roggie - they deadlocked their main door to prevent their eldest getting out!)
Come down on the side of logic here, in through the sliding rear doors and out front on the car park side. So why no vehicle, or perhaps there was. And in time even the Smith's sighting will be discounted and have everyone walking the wrong way at the wrong time.
