The only eye witness certainly believed that she saw Madeleine being abducted and I think she had very good reason for thinking that immediately she heard the hue and cry which alerted her that Madeleine was missing from her bed ...
Madeleine Was Here
Part 4 of 5
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I was walking up here to do the check … probably got to about here … I saw the man walk across the road there carrying a child …
3:33
... Why the hell didn’t you think there was somebody abducting a child … but its not a thought that somebody is going to go into an apartment and take a child out
I’m probably the one person who could have stopped them … there is that what if … what if …
https://youtu.be/na4aBr5PTYY
Jane's distress and trauma is palpable as a direct result of what she witnessed even many months down the line. Which leads me to another sceptic belief which saw her being called "Liar" from one end of the internet to the other.
The only eye witness to a probable abduction being deliberately trolled and traduced in the face of police not bothering to track down Dr Totman until 2013. Verifying that indeed a man had been walking home carrying his daughter around the time Jane saw a man carrying a child.
Unfortunately Dr. Totman would have been walking in the wrong direction. We all know this, of course, as we all have a greater knowledge of Luz Locations, which Andy Redwood doesn't appear to have had.
Was this a crying shame? I think so. But I doubt that it matters all that much anyway.
Andy Redwood didn't do enough research, which has probably now gone into the annals of time. But no one is perfect.
I believe that Jane Tanner saw the abduction, unbeknown to her at the time, and I am able to Follow the path that would have been taken, down to The Smith Sighting, and heading for The Beach of Light. From whence Madeleine was picked up by someone with a boat.
I believe that it was a planned Abduction by someone who wanted to adopt a girl child of Madeleine's age, but I suspect that any such middle class girl child would have done.
Sadly, I believe that Amaral thought that all of his birthdays had come at once. This for him was going to prove that Mothers kill their daughters, and consequently absolve him from the appalling handling of the disappearance of Joanna Cipriano.
Fortunately, Kate McCann never fell down any stairs, but don't think she might not have done, given the opportunity.