Why is Matt's recollection a pig's ear?
I'd agree that a few details don't seem accurate, but I don't find anything that would make me suspect he'd never checked. I don't think I've found anything more than the 3 below:
Rog: he mentioned having a look at books on a bookshelf - but it was actually a buffet with books on top.
4 May:
He seemed to remember two windows, but there was only one, sliding one. He may have got mixed up with someone else's flat, possibly his own.
He states that the bedroom has two windows. The twins occupy two cots placed in the middle of the room and Madeleine occupies a bed pushed against the wall, facing the wall which has the two windows that look out onto the outside of the complex.
10 May:
He only talked about one window in this one, but that he remembered the curtains as some shade of green, when they were blue and white. Depending on the light source(s), they may well have appeared more green than blue.
He recalls having the perception that the window curtains - green in colour - were drawn closed but could not determine if the window was closed or open. Concerning the external blinds he clarifies that he did not see if it was closed or open. He recalls having thought that in that bedroom there was more brightness than there was in his daughter's room (where the external blinds were always fully closed), adding to have had the feeling that that light was coming from the outside - making the point that both were turned in the same direction.
Why would the entire group collude to swap in Matt for Gerry at 9:30? Particularly when any of the Tapas staff could have noticed who'd got up or who was still sitting at the table?
The sodium street lamps outside, altho very much reduced bu the heads of the trees, would give of a decidedly yellow glow. The curtains were blue and white
Yellow + blue makes green, as I fell sure most of you are aware.
That Matt saw the curtains as green rather than blue, indicates that either
1) That the shutters were not fully closed but had light coming thru the tiny holes that opened up when the shutters were not totally closed.
or
2) The shutters were raised
Had someone come and
1) Raised the shutters, partially so that the tiny holes allowed a little light in ? ... before Matts 9.30 visit ... creating the green colour?
or,
2) Already done the dirty deed (the abduction) before Matts 9.30 visit ? So that the yellow lighting influenced the the blue curtains to make them look green ?
For the second to be true, the weather must have been quite calm at 9.30 pm, otherwise the curtains wouild have fluttered. Was it the lull before the storm ?
I prefer the second, that the dirty deed had already been done.
That matches up with Jane Tanners sighting.
One thing is certain:
The blue curtains would not have looked green, unless the colour was influenced by a yellow light.
