Blonk suggested that the article was totally fabricated. If it was - why would the Boyds have made reference to a sun hat (and possibly pink top) they couldn't have known Madeleine possessed?
The evidence that it is a fabrication is very clear and I won't repeat it. It's not even corroborated by Kate McCann in her book, for starters.
Now you make an excellent point about how they would 'know' about the 'pink top/dress' and the 'sun hats' etc. Looks like their account must be true on the face of it.
But has it occurred to you (or anyone else) that whether the 'Last Photo' was taken on the Sunday or the Thursday, the McCanns had it in their possession, it was on their SD card?
So they could have shown it to anyone they liked well before it was finally published on 24 May. We know that Alex Woolfall, the Head of Risk for one of the world's largest (and most opportunist) PR companies, Bell Pottinger, was trawling through Gerry and Kate's photographs as soon as he got to Praia da Luz on Friday 4 May. (Well, he had to do something for the £500,000 that, according to Lord Bell himself, the McCanns paid Bell Pottinger)
Woolfall was deleting photos and cropping others before the PJ got to see only an edited version of them on a CD handed in by the pair on 9 May at Portimao Police Station.
So, Gerry and Kate had the Last Photo in their camera. Alex Woolfall had it the next day.
They could have shared it with anyone. Clarence Mitchell for starters.
Anyone could have given it to the Boyds so as to help them fabricate a story about Louie and Madeleine playing football on the Wednesday afternoon.
It looks like those who concocted this fabrication, i.e. that Madeleine was playing football and whizzing down a non-existent water slide etc. on the cloudy and rainy Wednesday, grossly over-egged it, and chose the wrong day of the week for their tale.
