Aofie at the top of the stairs looked to her left and saw the carrier on 25 de Abril which means he was veering to his right, somewhere near Luzdoc.
You are quite wrong Faith
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MARTIN_SMITH.htm#p6p1611
1611 to 1614 Witness testimony of Aoife Smith taken 2007/05/26
6-Processos, Volume VI, pgs. 1611 to 1614
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— Upon leaving the bar, they turned right and headed along the road for 40/50 metres. At this point, they again turned to the right and ascended a small street with stairs that give access to Rua 25 de Abril. As they were a large group (four adults and five children) they travelled apart from each other along the street with some more to the front and the others more behind. She does not remember how they were divided [who was where].
— The deponent remembers that upon reaching the top of the stairs, she looked to her left and saw a man (1) with a female child (2) in his arms, walking along the pavement of Rua 25 de Abril. He was walking in her direction at a distance of, give or take, two metres /SNIP/The steps she came up are almost opposite the street, Rua D'Escola, that Bundleman came down.
It is a doglegged junction.THe photograph shown is the way that Aofie walked up the steps. She was walking in a northerly direction. As you can clearly see the road that Bundleman came down is doglegged and you cant even see the western half of that street where Bundleman came down, so for Aofie to see him. he had to turn right (towards the east and the Church
Bundleman came down, reportedly in the middle of f Rua D'Escola. He turned onto the pavement of Rua 25 Abril and walked only about 2 metres in front of Aoife. This means that he had turned left and was at that moment walking in an easterly direction towards the Church and Malinkas home. Look at the photo and you will see what I mean, about bundleman having to turn left to be near Aoife. Had he turned right in a westerly direction, as you believe Faith, he would never have been anywhere near Aoife
The easterly direction is the most likely way he carried on, but it is possible that he might have swung a little to the right afterpassing Aofie and gone down the very steps that Aofie and the Smiths came up. There were other members of the party behind Aofie, so I would have expected them to have noticed him. Seems they didn't. Therefore he almost certainly went East towards the Church and Malinkas
Most unlikely that he would have changed his direction altogether and gone west, cos had any one of that party looked back, they would have seen him do that.
Sorry Faith, but I think your theory about him going west to an empty house is a goner, especially if you are intimating that bundleman was Gerry ... cos if it was Gerry, he hadn't got a second to waste .... Had he?
Another myth hits the dust!
Additionally, from various witnesses we know that there was no sweaty Gerry, or ruffled Gerry at the table, and that he was there, at the table, all the pertinent time
