IMO everyone who was interviewed told the truth to the best of their recollections. However it is plain from the 'discrepancies' in many of them - (not just the group's) - that they cannot all be correct.
All this proves IMO is that everything the experts say about memories not being tape recorders and how vastly different the recollections of different people all honestly recalling the same incident can be - is true.
'Lying' doesn't come into it.
Mathew Oldfield's first statement
The interviewee says that the day yesterday was identical to the previous ones and that, as on all other nights, at around 8.45pm, he and his wife left their daughter asleep in the apartment and went to the "Tapas" restaurant.
That the couple Kate and Gerry, Madeleine's parents were already at the restaurant. That they had arrived at the restaurant five minutes before them. The rest of the adults arrived at the restaurant around five minutes after the interviewee and his wife. That the last to arrive at the restaurant was the couple David and Fiona. That the latter arrived at the restaurant at around 21h00.
That around 21h05, the interviewee went to the area of the apartments. Notably to the area near the windows of all the children's bedrooms.
Turns into this from his second statement
The deponent said he stayed in his apartment until 19h45 at which time, together with his wife, he went to the Tapas restaurant where Gerald and Kate were already and, from what was said afterwards, Jane. Later, about 20h50, Russell arrived.
The deponent added that David, Fiona and Dianne were still not present – and as he could see their apartment lights burning – he resolved to go to them, clarifying that he did not reach that apartment as those people were already on their way to the restaurant. He clarifies [further] that he met them near the living quarters, at the corner next to the main door of the McCann apartment.
Benefiting from meeting them next to the residences, he adds that, on his own initiative, he made a "listening check" at the bedroom window of Madeleine McCann and the twins at 21h05.
Both of the above are ......... the second being a cack-handed attempt to put right the wrongs of the first (which to be fair wasn't possible).
They're all ....... bar Dianne Webster, but even she had to revert to .......... The three timelines that were produced (without Webster's input) are .............. bar the meeting of Gerry and Jes and the reason that they don't work is due to an early raising of the alarm brought on by the Smith family sighting of Gerry!
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