Gerry disagrees, he has the alarm closer to 10.15 which gives him time to have returned to the Tapas bar after crossing paths with the Smith family - Half and hour later, without anything to remark, it being 22h03, he again alerted KATE that it was time to check the children. She immediately made her way to the apartment by the usual path, having entered through the back door. About 10 minutes later, he started to worry about her taking so long, and, at the moment the deponent prepared to get up and to check why she was taking so long, KATE appeared running, completely distraught and crying, saying that MADELEINE had disappeared and that she was sure because she had looked throughout the entire house.
Seeing as the alarm was raised because of the Smith sighting, it's hardly rocket science that he was at the table when said alarm was raised!
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id261.html#tap10
There's some interesting stuff on timings created by Charlotte Pennington's statements too.
Firstly from her witness statement:
The witness states that she participated in the searches, together with her colleague—Amy, searching various areas of the Ocean Club establishment. She also states that she searched the patio area of the residence where Madeleine stayed with her parents and siblings, and during which, she encountered many individuals inside the apartment but was not able to tell if they were complex employees or friends of the couple. She did not enter the residence in question;
Then (admittedly it's only a press report, but it's a direct quote and doesn't ever appear to have been retracted, so who knows...)
yesterday she told the Daily Mail: "I was in the apartment less than five minutes after they found that Madeleine had gone.
So a bit of an about-turn there...
She goes on:
Just before 10pm the last mother arrived to collect her child from the creche and mentioned that she had just bumped into a man, who had been shouting a name.
"She didn't get the name, but she said it sounded something like 'Abbey, Gabby or Maddie'. We automatically went into lost-child procedure. In these situations, the first thing we do is investigate the scene.
"We knew that one of the other nanny's charges was called Maddie. We told the head of department what had happened and she took us straight to the apartment.
"There were no children in the room. The twins had been taken out already, I think by one of the McCanns' friends.
So "just before 10" is one interesting point and another is "There were no children in the room". Hang on though... when the GNR arrived the twins were in the room, sound asleep and causing the GNR officers to wonder why they weren't waking up in all the commotion... where were the twins when Charlotte Pennington was in there?
If it was "just before 10" then if you take Gerry's timings of "10:03" (you can't, of course, as no timings can be seen as being that accurate unless there's a mobile phone call or text to "pin" a time as with John Hill and Emma Louis Knight) then that's another discrepancy. For Gerry to be searaching, Kate had to have walked the couple of minutes back to the apartment, found a missing madeleine, searched around thoroughly (as she said she did) then rushed back to the bar, collected Gerry, he had to have looked around before rushing out... you can see that this is all still very, very muddled. It's a real shame there was no flipping cctv working in the area.
Some interesting reading re: Ms. Pennington (and hysterical reporting) on the mccannfiles site with reproductions of some press stories. All of which must, of course, be taken with a large pinch of salt:
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id70.html It's things like the huge discrepancies in Charlotte Pennington's statements (nicely taken apart on the McCannfiles link above) that make those of us that doubt, doubt so much. Too many glaring errors. You can't argue that she forgot if she was in the apartment or not!
