Imagine your little girl is missing, feared abducted. You decide to film a reconstruction to jog people’s memories but your recollection is different from two other witnesses. Would you a) accept that your memory is wrong and go along with the similar recollection of the other two witnesses or b) dig your heels in, insist that you are right and undermine the memory and credibility of the only witness who, perhaps, saw the abductor ?
It was certainly important to Gerry were he stood as he was so insistent that he was right, no matter what the consequences. IMO by the time he got to the police station on the 10th he knew that the PJ weren’t convinced that Tanner could have passed, unseen, by Jez and himself and had to change position. Pity he couldn’t get the other witnesses to agree. Poor Jane, her tears said it all.
Please stop making it up to suit yourself as you go along.
Jane's tears were for Madeleine ... and if you had watched the programme and listened without bias to what Jane said you would have heard her distress at the thought she might have been able to stop Madeleine's abduction.
You might also have heard it being said that it didn't matter where the men were standing. It was where Jane was walking that was important. It was of importance where she was when she saw the man carrying the child away from the apartment Block where Gerry had just seen his daughter unbeknownst to him for the last time.
We know where four people were in the street that night albeit one of whom was anonymous. We know the whereabouts of the other seven.
What we don't know is where Brueckner was. I'm interested in the answer to that but then I'm not a fly in aspic.