Thank you Anne. And yes Sadie,I agree there must have been a light source somewhere to allow Matt to be able to see the twins. But, this must have also have been the case for GM's 9pm check...he was able to stand for a while (according to him) and look at Madeleine. I'm sure he wouldn't have turned the light on for fear of waking them?
Amanda, there was a lamp in the sitting room. This gave sufficient illumination for Matt to be able to read the titles of some books on the bookcase, he said. The door was normally left cracked open, but was apparantly wider open when Matt visually checked the twins.
I rarely read the statements now, cos thru obsessive demands for me to prove every word I wrote, i stupidly read all that tiny print and have harmed my eyesight. So I am relying on memory.
But I seem to remember that in one of his statements, Matt said that it seemed as tho a faint light was coming
from the window into the room. As the light level outside was low becos of the tree canopies being so dense that they prevented the street light penetrating, then it seems likely that the shutters were raised a little. Maybe it was the lull before the storm and no breeze about, cos he didn't comment about curtains fluttering as far as I can remember.
No light would come thru closed shutters. If Matt was correct about some light coming from the window, the abduction had already finished it seems. That times the abduction between 9.10 and 9.30ish. Fits well with Jane Tanners sighting.
The weather conditions with gusts that I have mentioned, in earlier threads, were for 10pm at Lagos and Faro IIRC. Also, somewhere, it said that the winds were strengthening and the sea conditions worsening