NAJOVA CHEKAYA casts doubt over TABLE for NINE

Curioser wrote:

tigger wrote:It may have been because the one very rumpled bed in the children's room was then explained by Kate having slept there that night.  I think that the twins slept in that bed, with the cots pushed up against it. For some reason the McCanns find it very important that the twins slept in cots.
In interviews there are quite a lot of slip-ups:  ' taken from your bed' ' Maddie was sleeping between the twins' 'the twins on their bed' - all not literal quotes but there are topics on this.
Early Dr. Roberts also writes about this.

Oh, I see. It is very odd isn't it. What would be wrong with having them both on the bed I wonder.

tigger wrote:

whatsupdoc wrote:I've thought that the Tapas group moved on to Chaplins on the Tuesday which held a quiz night on Tuesdays. I mentioned this on twitter last week and said "If they went there.." and it hit a nerve as one said "That's a big if".  Chaplins is next to the church about 800 yards away so checking regularly would have been a lot of walking.

I checked on textusa a few minutes ago and it said the group WERE seen on the Tuesday at Chaplins by a friend of Mrs. Fenn who was interviewed by Antenna which, I guess, is a TV company. I hope the PJ have access to the video tape of the interview. Surely the PJ would have interviewed the manager of Chaplins.

Read also about the cleaner observing the arrangements of the cots and beds on the Wednesday morning.

I always find that when something needs covering up, staff get fired (and worse) and establishments get closed down (FSS). Also vital pieces of evidence are lost or destroyed.

I would think that if you go for a meal at 9pm you wouldn't want to be taking part in a quiz...more likely to be 10pm which would tie in with Chaplins and their Happy Hour.

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You got it in a nutshell, I had a big problem with the back-up of the staff of OC on all levels, the night itself, the creche, the printing of photos until I realised that most of the English speaking staff were backing up the official story or changed their original testimony within days, the Portuguese speakers (waiters, cleaning lady)  didn't in the main.

Chaplins, when I looked last, still do a quiz on Tuesday evenings. There never was a quiz night in the Tapas I expect, one of these glitches in the story and imo simply put out because these things weren't expected to be checked!

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Mrs Fenn and her friends are a bit of a thorn in the Mc side, aren't they? If it could be proved that they lied about where they were on even one evening then the whole story starts to fall apart. (It all falls apart anyway, as far as I am concerned though). Could this have been the evening when I have read somewhere that staff went to find them because there was a child crying in the apartment?

Suppose Mrs Fenn did contact OC reception and voice her concerns over the hour and a quarter of crying? And a member of staff did go and try to find the McCanns? It is possible. 

It is on record that Mrs Fenn phoned a friend about the crying. If it had been me, I would have at the very least called OC reception. I would probably have gone and knocked on the door of the apartment to see if everything was okay.  I might even have phoned police, if the child sounded very distressed and the distress was escalating.

justagrannynow 1 wrote:According to press reports at the time, Ms Chekaya was present at the table on the night Madeleine disappeared.  Later she decided it had been another night.
Amnesia or what ?

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An aerobics instructor claimed she spent 30 minutes at the table and saw no one check the children.
Najoua Chekaya was chatting with Gerry and Kate McCann and their friends when Madeleine, then three, vanished from the family's Algarve apartment in Praia da Luz.
That night, Ms Chekaya had organised a bar quiz at the Ocean Club resort where the McCanns were staying. Her evidence is understood to corroborate the McCanns' movements in the hour before the disappearance was discovered.
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Portuguese laws make it an offence for witnesses in a criminal inquiry to discuss their evidence, but it is understood Ms Chekaya was invited by Mr McCann to join his table when the quiz finished at 9.30pm.
What happened between 9pm and 10pm is likely to hold the key to Madeleine's fate.

j.rob wrote:I think I can start to piece together some of what was going on that week. It is taking me to a place that I really do not want to go. And I feel very sorry for Madeleine. 

What I find beyond weird is the lack of Madeleine's DNA. Even if there had been an amazing clean-up job, surely there would be traces of her DNA all over the place. And at the creche (although  I wonder if she ever went to the kids' club at all . I certainly don't think she was there after Monday.)

PeterMac wrote:

justagrannynow 1 wrote:According to press reports at the time, Ms Chekaya was present at the table on the night Madeleine disappeared.  Later she decided it had been another night.
Amnesia or what ?

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An aerobics instructor claimed she spent 30 minutes at the table and saw no one check the children.
Najoua Chekaya was chatting with Gerry and Kate McCann and their friends when Madeleine, then three, vanished from the family's Algarve apartment in Praia da Luz.
That night, Ms Chekaya had organised a bar quiz at the Ocean Club resort where the McCanns were staying. Her evidence is understood to corroborate the McCanns' movements in the hour before the disappearance was discovered.
. . .
Portuguese laws make it an offence for witnesses in a criminal inquiry to discuss their evidence, but it is understood Ms Chekaya was invited by Mr McCann to join his table when the quiz finished at 9.30pm.
What happened between 9pm and 10pm is likely to hold the key to Madeleine's fate.

Lovely to re-visit these things after some time.
Could someone look at the Timeline thread and point to the Stickerbook or A4 timeline which INCLUDES this girl joining them, or any mention of a quiz  !!
Do we not think four red-blooded men might have noticed and included her ?  

Brilliant.
The more these liars lie, the more their lying lies catch them out.
And everyone who tries to 'help' ends up making it all worse.  (For the McCanns that is, not for the truth)