Gerry and Jez chat while Jane walks by. Seconds later she spots Tannerman!

[icabodcrane]

Wasn't it convenient that Jez didn't take part in the Ch4 Cutting edge docustory or jackanory?  Had he done so Gerry would have been the one embarassed and not Jane.

They didn't even mention the fact that they were willfully  misrepresenting Jeremy Wilkins'   witness statement  !

[Mr Moderator]

"I couldn’t walk that quickly because I’d got these silly flip-flops on and I couldn’t walk that, that well in them." (Jane Tanner Rog)

Sadie, do they sound like they're good quality silent flip flops? And she was walking slowly so more chance of spotting her.

When you walk slowly in flip flops you don't get the customary sound especially if you are trying to slip by unnoticed.  My own view is that both men walked towards each other and were in the quiet roadway.  This left Jane the footpath all to herself.

[Lace]

Really? If you were pushing a baby in a pram would you stop in the middle of the road for a chat?

Didn't the McCann's say it was quiet that evening?

[Mr Moderator]

Really? If you were pushing a baby in a pram would you stop in the middle of the road for a chat?

After 9pm in a street with little or no traffic...yes.

[pathfinder73]

After 9pm in a street with little or no traffic...yes.

Not according to his sketch. "I met him near some stairs and a ground floor flat. There was a gate leading up to some stairs." (JW)

[faithlilly]

When you walk slowly in flip flops you don't get the customary sound especially if you are trying to slip by unnoticed.  My own view is that both men walked towards each other and were in the quiet roadway.  This left Jane the footpath all to herself.

But no one describes that so why have you come to that conclusion ?

[John]

When you walk slowly in flip flops you don't get the customary sound especially if you are trying to slip by unnoticed.  My own view is that both men walked towards each other and were in the quiet roadway.  This left Jane the footpath all to herself.

That true, when I'm at home in Spain I wear flip flops everywhere even to do the garden and going shopping on my moped.  You can certainly walk on them without making a noise.  Now invisibility is another matter.

[peter claridge]

What I find puzzling is why, when Gerry had known that both the other witnesses to their chat placed Jez and him on the tapas side of the road, Gerry still insisted on undermining his own witness's credibility, by placing them elsewhere ? Why not just accept his recollection was wrong ?

They had little time to provide Gerry with an alibi for the Smith sighting, Jane repeating verbatim what she was told by Gerry about his meeting with Jes and as with many aspects of the timelines/statements there were and still are attempts to correct the obvious errors.

[Alfred R Jones]

They had little time to provide Gerry with an alibi for the Smith sighting, Jane repeating verbatim what she was told by Gerry about his meeting with Jes and as with many aspects of the timelines/statements there were and still are attempts to correct the obvious errors.

The Smith sighting was at 9.50pm.  How does JT's statement provide Gerry with a false alibi when she says she saw him talking to Jez approximately 40 minutes earlier?

[peter claridge]

The Smith sighting was at 9.50pm.  How does JT's statement provide Gerry with a false alibi when she says she saw him talking to Jez approximately 40 minutes earlier?

Yes it was a bit lame wasn't it but desperate times and all that...

[Alfred R Jones]

Yes it was a bit lame wasn't it but desperate times and all that...

It doesn't actually provide Gerry with an alibi at all - if you're going to risk your reputation and possibly your freedom on a lie, best make it one that actually serves your purpose!

[peter claridge]

It doesn't actually provide Gerry with an alibi at all - if you're going to risk your reputation and possibly your freedom on a lie, best make it one that actually serves your purpose!

But she saw (cough) said abductor and Gerry in the same place at the same time so Gerry can't have been the person (even though the hidden e-fit looks remarkably like him) seen by the Smith family.

Jane Tanner didn't walk by Gerry and Jes and she was at the table when the alarm was raised!

[slartibartfast]

Rubbish Slarti

No need for Gerry to teeter  and no need for Jane to inch her way past.  There was free pavement about 5 feet wide for Jane to walk thru.  Why are you exaggerating? 

Dont you like the truth?

A dark, quiet street, and you think someone could pass within an arms reach without being noticed. I don't think you would recognise truth if it bit you on the derrière.

[Alfred R Jones]

But she saw (cough) said abductor and Gerry in the same place at the same time so Gerry can't have been the person (even though the hidden e-fit looks remarkably like him) seen by the Smith family.

Jane Tanner didn't walk by Gerry and Jes and she was at the table when the alarm was raised!

But Jane actually DID see a man who she thought may be the abductor, Scotland Yard has verified that a holiday maker passed by the Apartment at approximately the time she says she saw him, which also coincides with roughly the same time Gerry and Jez were chatting in the street.  These are indisputable facts.

[faithlilly]

But Jane actually DID see a man who she thought may be the abductor, Scotland Yard has verified that a holiday maker passed by the Apartment at approximately the time she says she saw him, which also coincides with roughly the same time Gerry and Jez were chatting in the street.  These are indisputable facts.

If, as Jez claims, his and Gerry's chat may have been as early as 8.45 then the times don't coincide at all.