As promised, here are the two stills from the reconstruction video of what the Smith family supposedly saw. As you can see the film makers went with the babe lying in arms scenario rather than that babe held vertically.
Given that Martin Smith did say that watching Gerry McCann coming down the steps of the aircraft with a child held vertically against him reminded him of the sighting in Praia da Luz one has to wonder why the video-makers chose to ignore his recollections?
I think Gerry was the 'video-maker' there John
He was in complete control, it appears to me .... right down to over-ruling Jane and Jez Wilkins recollections of where everyone was placed, and imposing, instead, his
own recollection of events
You'd have thought, wouldn't you, given that his own presence was pretty incidental ( he didn't see either Jane or the abductor, afterall ) that he would have allowed Jane to do her reconstruction ( and it was
her reconstruction ) without interference
You'd think, wouldn't you, that he would say ...
" I really think I crossed the road to speak to Jez, but you know what, if you and Jez remember it differently, let's go with that ... it's how you remember things that's important here Jane, because it was you who saw the abductor making of with Madeleine at exactly this point" But no, Gerry undermines Jane's credibility as a witness by pointing out that she was wrong about something she recalled that night ... he casts doubt on the recall of the single witness who lends at least a shred of credibility to the abductor theory
It was his show John ... and he was calling all the shots
