Seems to me that approximately 5 minutes after the alert Diane makes her first trip to apt 5a and finds Kate and Gerry in a terrible state. After a few minutes she decides to return to the tapas restaurant to collect her handbag, baby monitor and the McCann's camera. She returns to apt 5a for the second time but finds Kate alone. Diane follows Gerry's example, goes outside and fiddles with the shutter in an attempt to raise it. She fails so returns inside where she meets up with Fiona who asks her to return to their apartment to watch their children.
Am I right?
Read this statement:
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/DIANNE_WEBSTER_11-MAY07.htm(although on the first occasion she had no recollection of having seen GERRY)
At the time described above she remained about 10 minutes in the apartment. After this time she returned to the restaurant to get her handbag as well as the camera of the couple McCANN and "baby monitor" of her daughter, and was soon back again in the apartment.
Time Estimate 10.10 pm (Fiona went to 5A after sending Matt to go and call the police)
1485
'What did you see when you walked in, describe it''
FP Reply
'At that point, Gerry, I don't think was in the apartment, it was mainly Kate.
Kate was already saying that she'd found the window open and the shutter open and she was convinced at that point that somebody had taken, taken Madeleine and that's what she was telling me and I was like 'They can't have done. They can't have done this', you know. And I looked, I looked throughout the whole apartment and I looked in all the cupboards, under the drawers, under the beds, behind the curtains, everywhere, erm, just, you know, trying to, knowing it had already been done, but you just do. Erm, tut, I looked, when I went into the room that Madeleine was sleeping in, the room was dark, Madeleine, erm, Madeleine's bed was sort of folded back, the sheets, quite kind of neatly really, erm, Sean and Amelie were fast asleep in their cots, they didn't stir, you know, I was opening the cupboards in the room and moving around the room, they didn't stir at all, which that was, that was odd. Erm, we were trying to ascertain whether Madeleine could have got out, and I've already said earlier the shutters were very heavy, and I was almost trying to convince Kate that she could have opened the shutter and climbed out, although knowing that wasn't a likely thing, but at that point we were just trying to pacify Kate in that Madeleine was going to be alright. Erm, and I, I think I touched the webbing in that room, but because Sean and Amelie were asleep, I didn't actually open the shutter in that room, we went, I went to the front of the house and I was trying to lift the shutter at the, at the back, just to prove whether, you know, whether it could have been opened and whether Madeleine could have opened it from the inside'. (Fiona Payne)
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/EMMA-LOUISE.htmAt about 22.17 I received a call from Lyndsey Johnson, the creche Manager, informing me that the girl had gone missing.
I was told who the missing girl was and at the beginning of the procedure went to the McCann's apartment to obtain the girl's description and of the clothes she was wearing when she disappeared.
Time Estimate 10.20 pmWhen I arrived at the apartment, there was a lady on the terrace, whom I now know to be Kate McCann, accompanied by the wife of one of her friends, David Payne. Kate could not say a word, looked very upset and about to cry. It was Mrs Payne who provided me with the details that I needed. I returned to the location where the leaflets were being distributed and passed on the information that I had gathered about the missing girl. (Emma Knight)
