I had always assumed that they were sitting on the sofa in the Payne's apartment. This appears not to be so.
Does that mean that the McCann family did not spend the night in the Payne apartment? If so, how could they have gone out searching in the early morning?
They moved to the Payne's apartment after Emma Knight left, and went out after that.
The McCanns went to the new apartment and I remember seeing Kate and Mrs Payne seated on the sofa, each holding one of the twins. I left the new apartment at 04.30 in the morning after instructions from John Hill.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/EMMA-LOUISE.htmReply ”Err well eventually err the twins were brought up into our apartment err and that again to me was err a very odd thing because they were fast asleep, they did not wake up.”
4078 ”Were they brought up, so had they been taken out of their cots and brought up?”
Reply ”Yeah, yeah. They were being carried, I think Fiona and Dave carried them up.”........
4078 ”Yeah. So after the twins had been brought up did Fiona and Dave stay in the apartment with you?”
Reply ”Yeah well at that point Kate and Gerry came up as well and err because the Police had decided to close off the apartment, bit late in the day but you know, they came up and what we did we got the, there was mattresses on the spare beds in the room where Lily was sleeping so we got them and put them on the floor in the lounge beside the twins so that they could rest, if not sleep, err but by this time it must have been about half past four, five o’ clock in the morning.”........
4078 ”Once they arrived at your apartment did they stay there a while or do you remember them leaving?”
Reply ”What, that night?”
4078 ”Mm.”
Reply ”Err I think, I think, I think they stayed there because it was very late or you know early, early morning
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