Can anyone tell me why Gerry McCann said this on 10th May?
On Wednesday night, 2 May 2007, as well as he and his wife, he thinks that DP also went to his apartment to confirm that his children were well, not having reported to him any abnormal situation with the children. On this day he and KATE had already left the rear door closed, but not locked, to allow entrance by their colleagues to check on the children.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/GERRY-MCCANN-10MAY.htm
Not one other person confirmed that DP checked the McCann children, in fact everyone agreed that the Paynes never checked their own children physically because they had the monitor. Also, not one of the others checked the McCann children until Matt did so at 9.30pm on 3rd May, as far as I know.
Gerry says 'he
thinks DP also went to his apartment' on the 2nd. IOW he wasn't
sure about it - at the time he was being interviewed.
Anyone who is expecting 9 different people - to have 100% accurate/identical recall - not only about every little thing
they said/did - but also what 8 other people said/did during the previous days is being extremely unrealistic IMO.
For example - if I remember correctly, Russell originally
thought that Jayne had left the table at the same time as Gerry on the 3rd and not 5 or 10 mins later. Obviously once she had reminded him that she was still sitting at the table when they began wondering where Gerry had got to - he would have realised he'd got that wrong.
Maybe a similar thing happened when Gerry was trying to remember back to 'who did what' on the 2nd May.
As they couldn't see into the future - none of them had any reason to make a point of carefully committing to memory - everything they did/said throughout the week. They were on holiday not military manouvres - when a report may well have been required at the end of the exercise.
I don't see how an analysis of what was said is possible without a verbatim record of the interview. A shortened summarised version, where we don't get to see the questions or a full version of the answers - is just too inadequate for that purpose IMO.