Jumping over the wall toting 16kg or 17kg might be a bit of a tall order. Sit on it and swing your legs over more like. Did the cops find evidence of such do you know. Keeping the victim quiet at the same time. That seems to be a stumbling block unless of course he anaesthetised the victim before leaving the apartment. Closing everything behind him as he went with a third hand.
We seem to be running out of options here a bit I think. We perhaps need to do a precis of what is known, what is possible and what is improbable.
The kidnapper of Madeleine McCann drugged her and her twin brother and sister so they would all be quiet while she was snatched.A duplicate key may also have been used to gain entrance to the holiday apartment where the children were sleeping, say investigators.
It means the monster is still a threat to children living or holidaying on Portugal’s Algarve and must be caught urgently as he is highly likely to reoffend.
Former police detectives David Edgar and Arthur Cowley have spent months re-analysing every shred of evidence.
They are convinced the abductor went to the family’s apartment on May 3 2007 fully prepared with sufficient drugs, probably chloroform, to knock out all three children.
The fact that Sean and Amelie, then just 18 months old, failed to wake when the alarm was raised, nor even as they were taken to another apartment in the cold night air, has persuaded the detectives that they, too, must have been drugged.
Had the twins been tested for drugs immediately, any medication used could have been established, making it easier to identify the kidnapper, but vital time was lost.
Chloroform can be made easily and other sedatives, such as the horse tranquilliser ketamine, are commonly in circulation in the criminal underworld.
Even now, however, experts say there may be forensic clues on clothing or bedding which could yield a breakthrough.
The Sunday Express can further reveal that the McCanns’ private detectives are working on a solid theory about exactly how Madeleine was abducted.
Just as television investigator Donal MacIntyre suggested in this paper three weeks ago, they believe there was a dry run prior to the kidnap that fateful night at apartment 5a of the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz.
While checking the layout of the apartment the night before, the kidnapper probably woke Sean, who in turn woke Madeleine. In the morning she had told Kate and Gerry she was frightened.
The fact that the children woke up is thought to have persuaded the kidnapper to use knock-out drugs when he returned the next night to take Madeleine, three.
On the question of the duplicate key, holidaymakers often left front door keys under the doormats during the day.
A theory emerging is that the kidnapper had a duplicate key to apartment 5a, which could have been used on the night to enter by the front door.
Mr Edgar and Mr Cowley do not believe Madeleine was taken through an open window as it would have been awkward, time consuming and there were no forensic clues left behind.
It is far more likely, they say, that he simply walked out of the front door with her in his arms. It had been thought that the front door was double locked, making it impossible to open from the inside, but this doubt falls away if there was a duplicate key.
The theory suggests the kidnapper had been targeting the apartment for a long time and had a detailed knowledge of the lock system.
With the front door unlocked, it is easy to simply pull a latch across to open it from the inside.
Another possibility is that the front door was not double-locked when Kate and Gerry left through the unlocked patio doors to join their seven friends at the resort’s tapas bar some 30 metres from their apartment.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/133307/MADELEINE-EXCLUSIVE-All-three-children-druggedKate McCann: I believe kidnapper drugged my twins on the night Madeleine was taken'On the night I just remember the twins lying in the cot and not moving - with lights going on and people moving around.
'There was a lot of noise and they just didn't move and I remember several times checking for chest movements. I did feel it was a bit strange that they were not moving let alone waking up.
'I did consider with Madeleine perhaps she had been given something too.'
The mother added the morning before Maddie vanished she had been crying and complained that she had not slept.
Mrs McCann said: 'I just think it is too much of a coincidence but I never thought for one moment that there was anything sinister.'
She added: 'When we discovered she had gone it seemed very likely that someone had tried the same thing the night before.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386093/Kate-McCann-Kidnapper-drugged-twins-night-Madeleine-taken.html
