Anything that I say IMO for is opinion, same as stuff that you also add IMO to.
However, the suffix IMO means, in my case, that I have studied the befores and afters and worked out a sensible scenario that fits and provides a sensible reason why certain things happened. They call it "LOGIC" and "LATERAL THINKING". It is Creative Investigation based upon logic
Unlike others, I do not allow myself to be RESTRICTED by what has accidentally been left out of statements; either by muddled thinking, memory loss or simply not thinking it important enough to record.
Tons will have been left out, but because it has not been recorded in statements, it doesn't necessarily mean that certain things did not happen.
In Gerrys case it is almost without doubt a muddled and memory loss situation.
No other sensible reason that I can think of why he should get it wrong. No way that I can think of that his misremembering could have benefitted him.
Just because you can't see how Gerry McCann might have benefitted from telling a different story you have assumed he was stressed so got muddled and misremembered.
If Gerry did tell a different story deliberately, however, your assumption is wrong.
The group very helpfully wrote a timeline for the PJ, which was handed over on 10th May. It was;
"collectively prepared by the nine people of the group in question" and it said;
"2115: JT leaves table, and sees GM talking with fellow resident ("Jez" Wilkins) outside the patio gate of 5A. The two were standing just up the hill from the gate towards Rua A. da Silva Road. She did not speak to GM as she passed."
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/TIME_LINE_3_MAY_07.htmGerry then told the PJ on the very same day;
He crossed the road in JEZ's direction who would come up on the right-hand side.............Because he had been specifically asked, he relates that during this period of time he did not see with certainty JANE pass that location, although it is clear that he was speaking when in front of JEZ, his back to the other pathway on which his apartment is situated. He relates also that JEZ never said to him that he had seen any person given that he was in front.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/GERRY-MCCANN-10MAY.htmSo preparing the typed timeline and giving it to the PJ was a complete waste of time. Instead of helping them it was confusing. Gerry clearly didn't agree with what it said, but why he allowed it to be handed over uncorrected we don't know.
