Yes and I know he wasn't in the apartment when Dianne first went there about 5 minutes after the alarm. He wasn't there when Emma Knight arrived at 10:20. So he was somewhere!
Rachael said in her Rog that she and Gerry searched the upper floors of Block 5 at 10.30pm. When the alarm was raised they all ran back. Gerry, Kate, Dave and Fiona went up the steps and into the apartment. Russ and Matt quickly checked the garden of 5A. Then she and Matt walked round to their apartment to check their daughter, and she stayed there. Matt went to call the Police and Dave and Russ went to search the roads. Rachael hung around near her doorway and spoke to Jane who was doing the same. She seems to be saying that Gerry was there too;
I was kind of talk to Gerry and then every now and then I'd go back and check on Grace, erm at one point, probably not that long after, maybe about ten thirty or something, Gerry and I looked at, up at the stairwell and kind of across all the floors of the block that we were in, erm and that was really the, that was all the searching that I really did, just up the stairs, I think they were five floors or something'.
1578 'And that was just you and''
Reply 'And Gerry'.
1578 'And what time was this''
Reply 'Erm I mean that would have been you know about half ten or something like that, erm and then'.
1578 'What was Gerry saying''
Reply 'Erm I don't know, I don't remember, erm no I don't remember in particular, erm'.
1578 'And how long did you spend doing that search''
Reply 'It was just really a quick you know, it would have been about five minutes, it was just up the flights and along the, you know the sort of verandas in front of the apartments,
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