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First things that I notice:
1) THe LH mans face is a long, rather thin heart shaped face, the RH mans face appears to be rather "square" ... I think the second man had his face was inclined right down, and his chin tucked right into his neck fat (jowls). This caused his chin to visually vanish in the poor light and shadow from the upper face.
2. Because his face is inclined right down, certain parts of the face are foreshortened [fs] as well as the chin vanishing into his "jowls" (fatty neck)
Despite having only 3 statements, it is quite likely that everyone who saw Smithman had his/her own go at the Efit. The RH efit has loads of foreshortening and also appears very "woolley. Is it an amalgam of several efits? Has that caused the woolleyness ?
3. The LH man is slightly smiling, the RH man is not. Smiling increases the length of the mouth and thins the lips down. It also lifts the cheeks a little as in these photos.
I dont know, but I think the LH image was Aoifes image.
I wonder if Aoife was a pretty 12 y.o. (going on 15 with make up) and he liked the look of her? Hence the direct look and the appreciative small smile? She would notice that and such is the natural reaction, would see an image that might be better looking than he really was?
4. Both men have small ears set flat against the head
5 However, the ears on the LH man appear to be stuck on in the wrong places, overlapping and cutting off a bit on each side oif the face, so making the LH face appear even slimmer.
6. Both men have a pronounced 10 o'clock shadow on their upper lips, but nowhere else.
7. The eyes and eyebrows have many similarities. Eye shapes are not dis-similar, and neither are the eyebrow shapes. Whilst one looks very groomed, the other looks a little unkept in comparison. They are both horizontal in alignment. Could the unkept look be because several efit images provided by several witnesses were superimposed and the minor variances caused the unkempt look?
With both images the brows widthwise, are are just covering the eyes and little more ... and lie in a horizontal plane There is a good gap between the brows on both and they are of similar o/all shape.
8. However, the vertical gap between the eyes and brows differs between the two images.
Could that be because RH man was looking down and this feature was foreshortened?
9. Both have the unusual bulges over the eyes. However the LH man has larger and bright eyes, whilst the RH man has a duller older look and his eyes are set closer together. Seems that as the head was tilted forward AKA the RH image, the bulge almost slightly obscured the top of the eyes.
The eyes are similar is shape , but the bulge above the eyes tends to "squash" the eyes in the RH image
10. The noses are not disimilar but again the RH image seems to be foreshortened, giving what appears to be a shorter nose.
Is the upper lip partially hidden by the nose and also foreshortened in the RH image?
11. The hairlines are not the same, but if the man in the second image had his head grossly tilted down then it would be difficult to assess the hairline.
I feel sure they are the same man.
See what you think of the attached photo, Sadie, it is seven years down the line but he seems to have the five o'clock shadow on the upper lip.
Also there was a phone call to him from reception which he didn't answer ... which is fair enough because it was in the wee small hours .
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. On the day of the disappearance of the child, that next morning (04/05/07) at around 01H23, he received a telephone call from the LOC reservations sector which he did not answer. He knows this because the number appeared on his mobile;
. When the telephone rang, he was sleeping and when looked at the ?display? of the mobile it looked as though what was recorded as the name 'Relvas', instead of 'Reservations', and thought it was a friend of his who often call shim at odd hours, already inebriated;
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/TIAGO-SILVA.htm>>
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Apartment key theft cover-up by resort staff in Madeleine McCann case
The Sunday Express tracked down the maintenance worker who allegedly lost the keys, 29-year-old Tiago da Silva, who lives a few miles from Luz in Lagos, a pretty coastal town.
When we put it to him that keys were lost, he paused momentarily before saying: “That is not the case. I can’t remember any keys going missing. The keys in maintenance were kept in a safe and nobody could get to them.”
However, his former colleague insisted: “I know what he told me at the time. The keys for all the blocks were kept on a cable and clearly marked.
“He said he had lost the keys to block five. He told me in the same week when the little girl went missing. I am sure of this.
“From my memory I think they were replaced with duplicate keys for the apartments which were held at reception. I remember all this very clearly. He did not want us to tell people about it, so we didn’t say anything.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/458798/Apartment-key-theft-cover-up-by-resort-staff-in-Madeleine-McCann-case
