OK, I'll stick my head over the parapet. If this has been done to death of the forum already, just point me at it and put me out of my misery.
I'm fairly sure that the collective "we", the entire forum, haggled timescale to death and came up with the GNR arriving at 5A at around 23:00. Gerry in the police car, Kate in the apartment. If I have got this bit wrong, then it's an easy correction.
Voice calls from Gerry to Kate in that scenario, around 23:15 make no sense whatsoever. We would be in the land of Gerry calling Kate twice within 5A, while the GNR was in 5A. I'm going to dump that one.
My next option is Gerry out searching rather than checking on what was happening with the police. Personally, I'm going to dump that option too.
That leaves me with Gerry going down to OC reception to see what was happening with the police. After that, it is a bit of a guess, but roughly it goes like this. Gerry to Kate - the police have been called. Followed by Gerry to Kate - the police are here - possibly with - we're on our way to 5A now.
The GNR said they arrived at 2300. Then they listened to the story. Then they drove to the apartment. iIsuppose all that could have taken 20 minutes? According to Silvia Batista she walked from G5A to reception when she heard the GNR had arrived. Gerry and friend followed her.
On the 3rd May he arrived at the resort in P da L at about 23.00, accompanied by officer Roque.
They went to the OC reception.
At that moment Madeleine’s father arrived at the reception and informed them of the events.
After having found out what happened, he went to the exact place Madeleine had disappeared from, accompanied by Roque, the girl’s father and a woman who was acting as interpreter, whose name he does not remember and another individual, a friend of the girl’s father, whose name he does not recall.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/NELSON-DA-COSTA-1.htmAfter she arrived she went immediately to the apartment A5 where she found several people inside the apartment and outside of it. She entered in the flat but soon left without having spoken with anyone, because she was informed that elements of the GNR were in the principal reception. She went there to meet them.
When she came close to the elements of the GNR she found that behind her was
Gerry, Madeleine's father, accompanied by another man whose identity she doesn't remember.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/SILVIA_BATISTA.htm