The Smith sighting doesn?t reach not reach the evidential threshold because it is weak, vague, contradictory and Smith?s sudden moment of alleged clarity 4 months after the event stretches credulity to breaking point, therefore it cannot be relied upon, that?s what no McCann sceptic on this forum will ever admit.. It proves nothing, only that a man was seen walking through town with a child at around the time Madeleine was reported missing. It could have been an innocent dad, it could have been an abductor but if you believe the Smiths timings and you believe the Tapas group?s timings it couldn?t have been Gerry because both sets of people place the time of the critical events between 9.50 and 10pm, leaving absolutely no time for Gerry to carry out his alleged dastardly deed.
There is evidence that the alarm had not actually been raised by 10pm but we are told to dismiss that on the basis of a telephone being wrong (no evidence that it was wrong), a witness who actually checked the time a couple of minites before so was certain what time she passed the apartment and found it quiet, no one testing shutters, no one screaming for a missing child, no one running up and down the street, no commotion to be heard whatosever. The clock on her phone would have to have been set a good 10 of 15 minites fast so that she was actually passing the apartment well before 10 in that case. So yes, Gerry can be Smithman if you want him to be but you do have to ignore the Smiths own timings as well as the timeline agreed by the McCanns and their friend as well as the witness who heard nothimg unusual at 10pm.
