Easy to obscure an exit from there then.
E.T.A.
Please note that I made a bit of a 'pigs ear of this post orininally. Hopefully much clearer now.More likely thru the parents bedroom patio door, which was largely obscured by a bush, rather than thru the sitting room patio door ... cos the later line of vision was not significantly obscured, so visible to eaters at the Tapas restaurant. But someone still had to climb/ descend steps that altho partly in darkness, and went into the glow of the street lamp immediately opposite, at the bottom and at the top.
The Front door is way most likely method of entry, due to its really dark entrance/ porchway.
Also the scent trails picked up by the dogs.
Also Jane Tanners sighting.
Of course it needed some way for getting the key, but that has already been done to death on here several times before.
I sometimes wonder if a person protecting an OC / MW staff member is influencing other sceptics on here to push the patio door angle ? Cos I cannot understand why the Front door is pointedly being ignored by
all sceptics on here, when it is so obviously the most likely point of entry/ departure.
It also could be someone, a sceptic, connected to an abduction, who is inflencing the other sceptics. This person just wants to muddy the waters and make it more difficult for the investigating police .... Maybe?