Let?s put the significance of 10.03pm to bed once and for all. If Gerry had had the presence of mind and ability to read his watch at the precise moment he was seen by the Smiths and 10.03 was of such vital importance to his alibi, why did he not mention this time as the time Kate left the table in his first statement? Why was it not written down on the timeline they all compiled that night? Why did it only make an appearance a week later in his second statement? Why having all agreed that the alarm was raised around 10pm in the aftermath, would Gerry deliberately try and shift the narrative by nealy 15 minutes, thus inevitably drawing suspicion to himself as umpteen witnesses including OC and creche staff would know that time was incorrect? Why is that specific time not even mentioned in Kate?s book? The Smiths had not even come forward a whole week after Madeleine?s disappearance so if he had been seen by them he would have had good reason to feel a bit more relaxed that he had gotten away with it and there would have been no need to invent the 10.03pm alibi of Kate leaving the table.
No, this is a complete red herring, it?s not even a verbatim record of what Gerry said, merely a third person recounting of what was spoken in English and translated into Portuguese. But this is how conspiracy theories are consttucted. Take one tiny detail and weave a whole narrative around it to suit the conspiracy agenda. People are human, they make mistakes, they misspeak, they mishear, they mistype, but these little discrepancies are the food that fuels the conspiracy industry online.
