The play was set to begin. No time for rehearsals, when suddenly an
extra appeared, an extra who had no place in the events
about to take place.
Shortly after 9 pm May 3rd, Jez Wilkins, the famous TV Director had
become a major player in the abduction of Madeleine
McCann. Later, newspaper headlines would scream
‘Madeleine and the Silent Witness’ the man who would
clear the McCanns.
When we look at the police statements, no one has come forward to
say they saw any of the group walking around or near any
apartments on any other night.
Wilkins, did see Tanner May 3rd, but much earlier in the evening,
he remembers she wore a purple dress and was standing
outside her apartment. If Tanner saw Wilkins she has
never said so.
Tanner has not mentioned seeing Jez and if what Jez says is true
,at some stage in the evening Jane changed her clothes.
Gerry McCann was seen the evening of May 3rd leaving or returning
to his apartment by someone who knew him. The young
Irish girl (not sure if this young lady exists)also saw
McCann and Wilkins talking together... no one has denied
that this meeting did take place.
The problem for McCann is that this messed up his well thought out
plan. The timing of Tanner seeing Wilkins, McCann and
the abductor all at around 9.15 or 9.20 pm means if, as
McCann claims, he had just checked his children and all
was well the abduction took all of four minutes and
while he and Jez were standing outside the apartment.
McCann needed to explain why he was there to Jez, checking his
children and telling him if he had not been with a group
they would not have left the children alone, the seed
was planted, the children alone left a window of
opportunity for an abduction. Wilkins later had a knock
on his door not to ask for help but to inform him
McCanns child had been abducted.
Tanner gave McCann an alibi by saying she saw him and the abductor
at the same time. The Smith Sighting, if anyone later
would think they recognized McCann, was now covered. (Or
so they thought)
There are no witnesses for any other evening, no one saw anything
because there was nothing to see.
The plan would have been so simple, the McCanns would have returned
to the apartment after dinner and drinks, (drinks paid
for by credit cards that they claim not to have
had.).... at a much later time, their usual 11.30 or
12.00 pm. The simulated abduction planned to take place
at just before 10.00 pm would leave more than ample time
to play on neglect.Instead, we only have a window of
four minutes at the most for the abductor to have
entered, jemmied shutters, grabbed a sleeping Madeleine
without disturbing the twins in their blanketless cots
and make his get away.
Had things gone to plan, I believe we would not be sitting here at
our keyboards trying to discover what really happened to
Maddie. There would have been evidence of a forced entry
and anger from the public at the amount of hours the
children were left alone but leaving a huge opportunity
for an ‘abductor’ to have taken a child.
Wilkins foiled the plan and a new idea was whipped up, the tearing
of a childs book to write on and fit a timeline,
children checking, to match the meet with Wilkins.
Bridget O’Donnell , the partner of Jez, what is her role in all of
this ?
Paul Gordon, a witness, told police he was harassed by the
newspapers and in turn Brian Kennedy and the McCanns
about the Donation caller.
December 14th 2007, Bridget wrote an article for the Guardian.
Bridget either has a very bad memory, or she said things
to mislead. Tennis coach Georgina Jackson said Madeleine
had a tennis lesson on Tuesday May 1st... Bridget admits
Madeleine and her daughter were in the same group as
they had both practiced for a dance to be shown the
following Friday... why then did Bridget say the tennis
lesson was on Thursday morning, the day after Madeleine
vanished?
Bridget also claims they sat in the afternoon sun and laughed as
Gerry practiced his tennis swing. Again Georgina in her
witness statement said she had seen Jez and McCann
talking but very few words... there does not appear to
be this friendship Bridget would like us to believe.
Bridget also tried to make the PJ look foolish by claiming they did
not recognize a photograph of Madeleine, she was also
very unpleasant about Robert Murat.
Was Bridget afraid and if so what of, afraid Jez might be next in
line for some imagined blame or accusation. Bridget also
wanted to make it very clear ‘There were no drug fuelled
swingers on this holiday. |