Timeline May 3rd

[Brietta]

Jane doesn't think so.

She certainly thought so at the time and for many years thereafter as well as being called 'liar' by many sceptics and sceptic fora.

Dr Totman being identified as the carrier gave some respite from the slurs and gave her blessed respite from her fear that she had seen Madeleine being carried away. 
But my opinion is my opinion and I see it as I have outlined in my post.

[Brietta]

Then where does Totman and the jemmied shutters fit in?

Please remember that the shutters were never jemmied.

Please remember that no material witness ever claimed that they were.

[pathfinder73]

"Gerry told me when they went back the shutters to the room were broken, they were jemmied up and she was gone," said Mr Healy

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/05/world.topstories31

[Wonderfulspam]

Please remember that the shutters were never jemmied.

Please remember that no material witness ever claimed that they were.

Yes, all Kate & Gerry's friends & family just imagined the shutters being described by them as forced, jemmied & smashed.

It was a collective hallucination, much like the Smith family suffered.

[Brietta]

Is that why Redwood never elaborated on why Totman was going in the wrong direction, if he was supposed to be coming away from the nursery, do you think?

In conjunction with the "almost certain" the direction of travel was a consideration.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Yes, all Kate & Gerry's friends & family just imagined the shutters being described by them as forced, jemmied & smashed.

It was a collective hallucination, much like the Smith family suffered.

Yes and Gerry told them all they’d been jemmied despite knowing the truth would be known almost instantly. Did he forget to jemmy them himself or is he just incredibly stupid?

[Brietta]

"Gerry told me when they went back the shutters to the room were broken, they were jemmied up and she was gone," said Mr Healy

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/05/world.topstories31

Hearsay and not a material witness and an excessively desperate clinging onto long discredited shibboleths; I understand the desperation behind posts of this type though, I think it is all sceptics have left to cling to.

[pathfinder73]

Hearsay and not a material witness and an excessively desperate clinging onto long discredited shibboleths; I understand the desperation behind posts of this type though, I think it is all sceptics have left to cling to.

“As a lawyer once said to me, apropos another matter, ‘One coincidence, two coincidences – maybe they’re still coincidences. Any more than that and it stops being coincidence.’” Kate McCann

[Wonderfulspam]

Yes and Gerry told them all they’d been jemmied despite knowing the truth would be known almost instantly. Did he forget to jemmy them himself or is he just incredibly stupid?

Maybe he was concerned with other matters & forgot.

Either way, there's no doubt the family were told about the broken shutters, they can't all have imagined hearing it.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Maybe he was concerned with other matters & forgot.

Either way, there's no doubt the family were told about the broken shutters, they can't all have imagined hearing it.

Broken yes, jemmied no.  It’s quite understandable if Gerry thought the shutters had been forced, unless you can tell us why this was a ridiculous conclusion for someone to draw in such a scenario.

[G-Unit]

Hearsay and not a material witness and an excessively desperate clinging onto long discredited shibboleths; I understand the desperation behind posts of this type though, I think it is all sceptics have left to cling to.

Some desperately cling to Tannerman despite him being dismissed in 2013.

[Wonderfulspam]

Broken yes, jemmied no.  It’s quite understandable if Gerry thought the shutters had been forced, unless you can tell us why this was a ridiculous conclusion for someone to draw in such a scenario.

Because Kate had opened the window & shutters, her prints were there, if they were ever actually open that is.

[Wonderfulspam]

Some desperately cling to Tannerman despite him being dismissed in 2013.

& Smithman is never the abductor in McCann land.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Some desperately cling to Tannerman despite him being dismissed in 2013.

Some desperately clinging to the McCanns despite being dismissed years before that!

[jassi]

Some desperately cling to Tannerman despite him being dismissed in 2013.

Denial- as Davel would say.