Quotes from mccanns and team...

Châtelaine wrote:Gerry never said that himself. IIRC it was a "source close to the family".
I will try tomorrow to document the real source.
But for now I would want to class this as a "myth".
Nonetheless, it was in the papers and it didn't come from someone sucking his thumb [this may be a Dutch expression .. but you'll know what I mean]
Good night :-)

tigger wrote: [...]
Here it is Chatelaine: we're running two similar topics concurrently it seems, but the One liner one must have references.

Daily Express:
Thursday September 13,2007
By Padraic Flanagan in Praia da Luz
THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann yesterday challenged the police: "Find the body and prove we KILLED her."
unquote

ROSA wrote:GERRY MCCANN IN LISBON

There's no evidence that Madeleine is dead and there's no evidence to implicate us in her death"

aiyoyo wrote:

ROSA wrote:GERRY MCCANN IN LISBON

There's no evidence that Madeleine is dead and there's no evidence to implicate us in her death"

That is the most self defeating statement.

Does anyone else see the controversy in that sentence?
On one hand he's saying Maddie is not dead, and at the same time he's saying also they were not implicated in her death - so if she is alive how can anyone be implicated in her death?

tigger wrote:May already been posted but:
Vanity Fair interview published feb. 2008:

Gerry: it could have been worse, we could have lost all three.'

Quite right, an abductor would have had well over two minutes to take the twins. Whereas the time frame for Maddie was about 1 minute 40 seconds.

tigger wrote:
Gerry: it could have been worse, we could have lost all three.'
Quite right, an abductor would have had well over two minutes to take the twins. Whereas the time frame for Maddie was about 1 minute 40 seconds.

Working purely from the statements of Gerry McCann, Jeremy Wilkins, and Jane Tanner, and adding the time as we proceed we can estimate the following -
Gerry McCann left the Tapas bar 9:05 pm
Arrived at gate at bottom of stairs 9:06
Climbed stairs, entered apartment and went to bedroom 9:06.30s
Looked at children and had “proud father” moment 9:07
Used toilet 9:08
Left apartment, closing doors, went down stairs, met Jez Wilkins 9:09
Talked to Jez Wilkins 9:09 - 9:13 pm
Jane Tanner left Tapas bar 9:10 pm
JT arrived bottom of stairs, saw and passed the two men 9:11
JT saw abductor carrying child across top of road 9:11.05s
There is therefore, on their own timings, just two minutes and five seconds for the intruder to get in, seize Madeleine, get out again, and make his way round to the top of the road. To walk from the front door or window of the apartment to the left behind the low wall, then across the car park, then right to the corner of the street takes around 45 seconds. and a further 5 seconds to cross the street. [16]
He has therefore around one minute and twenty seconds to enter, commit the crime, and exit.
This is an important point for the understanding of what happened.
Let it be stated once again.
If the man seen by Jane Tanner was the “abductor’ and was carrying Madeleine, as the McCanns insist, he had available to him the time from Gerry McCann’s leaving the apartment to the sighting by Jane Tanner. And no more.
In this time the intruder has to
• Enter the apartment
• Sedate all three children - in the dark
• Select Madeleine as the victim - in the dark
• Open the shutters and window - if he used the front door to enter
• Pick Madeleine out of her bed - in the dark
• Turn her round so that her head is now to his left, rather than to his right, which is the way he would have approached her in the bed.
• Exit the apartment, either through the opened window and shutters, or through the front door, which he must then close silently behind him.
• Walk to the left along the path in front of the apartment, walk straight ahead across the car park, and then walk to the right along the road, and cross the
street in front of Jane Tanner, the father of the very child he had just abducted, and another man who has his own child in a buggy.
Taking into account the travelling time, he has around one minute and twenty seconds in which to achieve the first seven items on the list.

Clearly he could not enter through the patio door within this time frame, since Gerry was standing either at the bottom of the steps, or on the other side of the road. depending whether we follow the statement of Gerry McCann, Jez Wilson, [17] [18] or Jane Tanner. (During the televised “documentary reconstruction” Gerry
McCann’s version took precedence, and viewers were treated to the sight of Jane Tanner being reduced to tears as her detailed recollection was publicly destroyed.) [19]
For our purposes this important contradiction is, for the moment, irrelevant.
As Kate has observed, “What may be important is that all three of them were there.” [20]
It is indeed a very important point, as it fixes forever Jane Tanner’s sighting relative to Gerry McCann’s leaving the apartment, in a way which cannot be altered by debate or legal argument.
It could only be altered by admission of error, but Jane Tanner has several times then and since publicly insisted that she was telling the truth. [21] [22]

PeterMac wrote: [...]
Will Gerry appear, on oath, before a court of law, where the lawyers include those acting for the Senior Investigating Officer in the case ? ? ?
I think not.

Châtelaine wrote:

PeterMac wrote: [...]
Will Gerry appear, on oath, before a court of law, where the lawyers include those acting for the Senior Investigating Officer in the case ? ? ?
I think not.

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But ... does he really have a choice?