[When asked why instead of scouring the land next to the complex they stayed inside the apartment, he replies that it did not happen that way. While the guests and employees of the resort were searching, he went to the main Reception to check whether they had called the Police, and told Kate to wait inside the apartment. After going to the Reception he went back to the apartment where he stayed in the living room and in their bedroom. 7th September
the deponent (Mr McCann) having asked MATHEW who went to the secondary reception [where] the event was communicated to the local police, since he had no doubt that his daughter had been kidnapped [abducted]. 10th May]
An important part of the case.
Helder Jorge Samaio Luis
That he immediately contacted the GNR in Lagos, shortly after this the child's father and John Hill arrived at the reception and he phoned the GNR again.
JOHN ELLIOT HILL
Statements show that he knew of these facts by means of a phone call from Lindsay, head of the child care service, who told him about a female child staying at the resort who had disappeared. This phone call was made to the deponent's mobile phone at about 22.28 on 03-05-2007.
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John Hill wasn't informed of Madeleine's disappearance until 10.28pm. Therefore we can conclude that Gerry and Mr Hill never went to reception until 10.30pm at the earliest. First phone call to police is logged at 10.40pm. So from 10-10.25pm Gerry's whereabouts are unknown. Matt Oldfield went to reception earlier but was told by Fiona Payne to go.
"So Fiona, I think, asked me to go and phone the Police, so I actually went down the route to where she would have gone for Nursery drop off, which his back to the, to the main reception essentially, so I went down that route looking for her at that time and I asked the reception to phone the Police, and that must have been about five past, it's difficult to know what time it was at that time, but maybe about ten past ten, five past ten, ten past ten'."
"I think it's Stuart HILL or, well the Manager, the sort of Manager got involved, that might have been when it occurred. Erm, so there was plenty of running around through the back streets and back to the apartment and then, you know, where's the, where are the Police, where are the Police, erm, and so went back down to the reception, this would have been about thirty minutes or so later, erm, back to reception, erm, and at that point, Gerry had come down as well."
"about thirty minutes or so later" 10.30pm. Where people were actually searching in this 10-10.15pm time period is going to be very important in solving this case and the connection to Smithman and Madeleine. The net is closing in!
