Matthew Oldfield said April 28th 'We dined at the Millennium
because the tapas was closed.' This is true the tapas
was closed but the group had paid into a package deal,
the Millenium was part of that deal ,breakfast and
evening meal.
All the other days they ate at the Tapas. From Sunday, April 29th
to Thursday, May 3rd. 5 days, 5 dinners, at Tapas.
Lunch said Matthew, would be eaten in a group, this included the
children, Payne’s apartment commonly used, due to its
larger size. Matthew also explained the first booking
made for dinner at the Tapas, which was for Sunday
night, was made by O'Brian, but he is not sure.
Matt clarifies, Monday morning his wife Rachael, undertook such
reservations, adding still that it would have been for
all the remaining days except for Friday 4th May, as a
Tennis Club dinner for that night had been planned.
Jane Tanner also confirms the booking was permanent for
20h30...until the end of the stay.
Dr.Gerald McCann during an interview said about the night of 'Why
did you not come when we were crying' 'we did not even
know even know if we could get into the Tapas. (This is
a blatant lie if the others are telling the truth, but
are they? )
Each evening it seems someone from the group had a bout of
sickness. Fiona in her statement, said someone, every
night was sick. ( If Paulo Rebelo was right in his
assumption and seven children were together, the person
who 'claimed sick' would have stayed with the children.
There of course being no sickness at all, it was taken
in turn to sit with the children...leading to the
conclusion there was no neglect. One was a bay sitter)
Gerry McCann said that Sunday lunch was spent in the apartment of
Payne except for Matt , who it appears was the first to
be 'sick'. Matt also did not attend Sunday dinner. Matt
would have been the baby sitter for Sunday night.
Dianne Webster said there was no need for the Paynes to check on
their children as they had a baby monitor
Dr.McCann thinks on Wednesday David Payne checked on the McCanns
children but he is not sure.It is odd that this
generosity was only extended to the McCann children as
we have already been told the Paynes did not need to
check their own.
Monday and Tuesday evening seemed to have caused some confusion.
Dr. McCann does not remember which of these days
Madeleine had slept for sometime in his room with Kate,
who had told him one or both of the twins were crying.
Russel and Tanner also suffered from a bout of amnesia about these
dates. Russell said in his statement “I remember the
night well as it is the only night we were together”.
But then Russel does admit defeat because he and Jane
are unsure if this was Monday or Tuesday evening they
were all together.
(Monday, someone was away from the table, Rachael has said she was
not at dinner on Tuesday. Sunday, was Matts turn. )
(This goes well with the theory of Paulo Rebelo, the group cannot
say they were all together at the table at the same time
because this never happened and they could not
guarantee an observant waiter would make a statement to
this effect., always someone was missing and that
someone was the chosen baby sitter for the evening)
Miss Najova Chekaya., Quizz mistress, invited by Gerry Mccann to
sit at his table. May 2nd, the same night Mrs.Fenn
heard a child screaming, only one child which meant the
twins were either very heavy sleepers or not in the
apartment.
Miss Chekaya sat with the group for about 20 minutes enjoying a
drink. She does not know whether Madeleines mother Kate
was there.
.Najova said she sat at the table about 9.30... No one left while
she was there including Madeleine’s father. She did
notice an empty chair of someone who had had dinner and
left.
Kate’s witness statement is clear for the night Tues May 1st...She
and Gerry checked the children twice each: 9.00 pm...
9.30 pm... 10.00 pm.. and 10.30 pm... ( Out of complete
character then on May 3rd others from the group start to
check McCanns children when Dianne Webster had already
said each was resposible for checking their own.
Najova was shown photographs of the group and Miss Chekaya is
unsure if David Payne was present or not...leading once
again to justified doubts of a table of nine.
Wednesday May 2nd, Rachael Oldfield was feeling unwell and stayed
in her apartment all night.
(Or baby sitting)
Her husband Matt was at the restaurant. Wednesday 2nd May... they
all remember staying late for a drink at the bar. They
did not return to their apartments until close to
midnight |