20.35 Gerry & Kate at restaurant
20.40 Jane Tanner at restaurant
20.42 Matt and Rachael at restaurant
20.45 Russell at restaurant
20.55 Matt 1st check Passes the Paynes and Dianne Webster
20.57 Matt listens
21.00 Matt returns 1st check Starters ordered
21.05 GM 1st check
21.15 Jane sighting GM & JEZ talking north of gate.
21.20 Jane returns Starters have arrived
21.25 Matt and Russ go check
21.30 Matt McCann apartment check
21.35 Matt returns from McCann apartment check Mains have arrived
21.40 Jane relieves Russ
21.45 Russ returns
21.55 Russ food served
22.00 Kate check Searches all rooms and wardrobes then heads back
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/TIME_LINE_3_MAY_07.htmFiona agreed with Dianne in her 4th May statement. She said they left for dinner at 20.45. No other times are given.
In her rogatory interview she now says ten to or five to nine. They saw Matt near the McCann's gate. The food was served very quickly that night, she said. Is twenty minutes quick for the starters to be served? Gerry left to check at nine-ish, after Matt returned. Then Jane went, no time given Matt and Russell went at half nine. Russell stayed with his daughter. Jane wolfed her main, which had just arrived and went to relieve him. Kate went to check between 9.45 and 10pm. She returns to give the alarm just as Russell;s meal arrives.
Fiona mentions her conversation with Kate about leaving the patio door unlocked, which Kate was unsure about due to Madeleine's 'crying' comment. She also remembers an earlier conversation about it;
'Erm, I mean,
I was aware of them swapping their arrangement at some point, because I know they had been coming, using the front door, erm, which is the door with the key, to go in and check the children, and then, at some point, that changed to using the back door, just because, as you can see from the map, it was quicker for them to do that and easier to get in, then just sort of quickly nip in through the French doors and out again. I couldn't tell you what point that was, but I know,
I know there was a conversation about, oh we've started nipping in that way rather than going the long way round.........'Erm, I mean, my feeling is, you know, they did it the front way for a couple of night and the rest left it open, but I don't know, I mean, they'd know that, as I say, I just remember the conversation'.....
you just assume everyone's locked their apartments and gone. And, as I say, I assume Kate and Gerry had even done that,
it was only that night I realised that they hadn't or I'd even thought about the fact they were going in the French doors and you couldn't lock it from the outside, but I was aware their system changed and I was aware erm, on that night that their apartment was unlocked'.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/FIONA-PAYNE-ROGATORY.htmA bit of a dog's breakfast there. Fiona seems to know all about the McCanns using the patio door after the first couple of nights or she learned about it that night (Thursday)???. That calls into question Russell's tale of checking the MCann children using the unlocked patio door on the Sunday night, but more of that later.