Can't have it both ways on Tanner's invisibility. Either she was present to give Gerry McCann an alibi (if you are saying the sighting was fabricated), or she wasn't.
If Gerry was using Jane to fabricate an alibi for himself, they would have got their stories straight. He wouldn't have said that his key witness wasn't even in the street at the time!
And re Smith, please see my recent reply to icabod. Kate invokes the Smith sighting as a defense for the abduction theory - not a contradiction to it.
No, SH, I'm not saying the sighting was fabricated and I even think Ms Tanner saw a Tannerman who wasn't Innocentman, but not where and when she said she did.
I can't believe Innocentman walked all the way from the creche carrying the child as Ms Tanner described.
I'm sure there was no kind of previous plot or silence pact. The members of the group had some "natural" common interests.
Come on, SH ! The McCanns learnt about Smithman in the beginning of June 2007. Though in June 2007 Mr Smith had not yet found Smithman was Gerrylike, their first and twisted acknowledgement of this sighting was only two years later.
Edited to correct a serious mistake