After Fiona tells Matt to go and phone the police at 10.10 she goes into 5A and finds Kate alone with the twins. Gerry is not there! He is also missing in the initial first searches:
"Dave, erm, Matt, Russell and myself split up in four different directions." (FP)
5 are out searching from 10 to 10.10 - Fiona, Gerry, David, Russ and Matt
1 Dianne Webster at table/5A
1 Kate in 5A
1 Jane Tanner in her apartment.
1 Rachael Oldfield went to her apartment
Total 9
From the 5 out searching read their rog interviews - none of them remembers seeing Gerry with them in the initial first searches (only Russell see below). After that the other men remember seeing each other but not Gerry. He's disappeared just like his daughter!
1. Nobody saw Gerry at the night crèche.
2. Kate was alone when Dianne Webster came to 5A and when Fiona came after Dianne at 10.10. Gerry wasn't in 5A. So where is he?
This is the one sighting of Gerry from the others at the very start of the first outdoor initial searches. According to Russell, Gerry tells everyone to "Split up and find her!" He is not seen when they reconvene after doing a quick first sweep search - only the other 4 i.e. Fiona, Matt, David and Russell.
"Erm, some people went directly into the flat initially, erm, included, including Gerry and, and Kate, others just stayed at the, at the, at the gate, erm, on the road leading down beside the apartment. Erm, and you know it was, it was absolute, you know, bedlam, there was panic and, you know, I’m not, the, the order of how things were decided and what, and what we did is, is just a complete blur at this point, but, you know, nonetheless, I think people came back out and then, you know, she’s, she’s certainly not there. And I recall, certainly me, erm, erm, Dave, Matt and I think initially at least Gerry, just said ‘Look, let’s just’, erm, ‘let’s just split up and find’, erm, you know, ‘see if we can find her, see if she’s just wandered out’. So everyone did a little bit of a search just in the, in the immediate area and I went along the passageway which was in front of the patio, the patio entrances of, of the apartments, erm, round, all the way along that initially, I think, and unbeknown to me at this point, because we hadn’t really used this entrance a great deal, certainly not walked to the other end of it, it was actually a dead-end, so I then had a look in the, in the front gardens of, of the apartments on the ground floor that you could see, searched a little bit just in between the two apartments and obviously this was a fairly brief search and rapidly doubled back and, erm, you know, the, other people had just came back from the immediate vicinity as well and it was established obviously that no-one had, had found her." (Russell O'Brien Rog Interview)
