What I would want to know is the order of arriving.
What day did the Sisson family arrive?
what day did the Mayer family arrive?
Which family set up in the camp before the other?
Karen talked of toys around the caravan which made it seem more of a static site.
"“And there were children’s toys, a bike and rollerblades around the caravan for a girl her age, so I had the impression maybe they had lost a girl and seen Maddie and wanted to replace her,” she added."
EXCLUSIVE By Wendy Williams and Jon Clarke in Cabopino The Olive Press.
"Well outside the camper van there were crates of possessions and children's bikes etc, a table and chairs etc. This seemed more permanent than a holiday, as if they had been there a while or moved around camp sites. It was more than just holiday equipment." This is what Karen told me. I'm just a bit unsure who was using the camper van.
In order to get a better understanding of the above issues I contacted Karen Sisson again.
My questions to Karen:
"Hi Karen,
I hope things are going well, over there.
One minor thing to help me get the picture in my mind, what I would want to know is the order of arriving.
What day did the Sisson family arrive?
What day did the Mayer family arrive?
Which family set up in the camp before the other?
You talk of lots of toys around their caravan which gives me the impression they were there longer than you.
"On May 6, a German family arrived with a caravan." Did you see them arrive?
You said "Well outside the camper van there were crates of possessions and children's bikes etc, a table and chairs etc. This seemed more permanent than a holiday, as if they had been there a while or moved around camp sites. It was more than just holiday equipment."
Which vehicle was the camper van? Karsten Mercedes was towing a caravan wasn't it?"
Karen's K and Robs R interaction:
K: Hi the camper van comment was me getting the terminology wrong, it was a caravan that was towed. It was already there when we got there. The olive press uncovered the photo of their booking in, did that have their date on it, my arrival date was the one on my email on my letter to royal Gib police that I sent you.
R: Ok it was already there when you got there, and you think they had been there for a while because of the amount of toys around their site. (that is how I understand you.)
K: What I meant was they had a whole area out front with crates of stuff tables and chairs etc, more like if you were staying somewhere for a while or were travelling, around for a while
More than we ever took anywhere
R: So I want to know what day you arrived? I'll look at the email.
K: It's a long time ago now the letter I sent is more reliable than my memory
R: I can understand the two times you saw her "Whilst at the campsite I passed a young girl both on Sunday 6th May and Monday 7th May who looked remarkably like Madeleine."
K: I remember it was a bank holiday that weekend for Gibraltar
That's why we would have still been there on a Monday
R: I'm trying to tie your sighting to that other one.
K: What date was that other one again
R: I quickly looked through the emails and I didn't see a date of arrival.
K: I say the sunday
R: What do you think this means "Now Brit cops have been told the family paid extra for bringing one child more
than expected when they arrived at the site on May 6."?
K: That refers to the booking in when they arrived at cabopino
R: I need your sighting dates to be one day later or theirs one day earlier
K: They must have arrived at cabopino on the 6th
R: Well they certainly paid for an extra child from the 6th
K: What is the date of the other sighting, which one are you referring to
R: I'll get it from the website.
K: If it's the Spanish one, remember they could have checked the van in on the sat and then driven the people carrier out into Spain for the day on the sat
R: "The timing of this incident does not quite fit with Karen's observations or does it? This incident Barcelona was in the early hours of May 7th. Maybe it does if Karen saw her later in the day on the 7th. Could you get from Barcelona to Camping Cabopino in that time? Karen Sisson said in a letter to the McCanns in 2008 "Whilst at the campsite I passed a young girl both on Sunday 6th May and Monday 7th May who looked remarkably like Madeleine""
K: Yes I saw the girl in the evening if the 7th
Around 6pm ish
I didn't see the parents on the 7th she was on her own outside the van
R: well could you have seen her the next day as well on the morning of eighth?
K: It was the afternoon I saw them when we went to the pool
On the 8th
They were in a different part of the site to us
R: OK so you dates could be late on the 7th and on the afternoon of the 8th by the pool.
K: We were by the pool, they were parked next to that area,
R: OK But if they drove to Barcelona to pick up a girl , did you ever notice that the blue people mover was not with the caravan? Were they attached or separated?
K: Sorry Robert I have to get on I have a lot to do today
R: When you get time. Please.
Thank you for that bit. Very good.
K: The people carrier was separated yes, it was next to the plot
They could have driven in and out of the campsite at any time
That's what everyone did
R: Thank you....etc
