
Sometimes wishes come true and Santa does reward brave little girls.
I wish all my readers a brilliant Christmas and a truthful New Year
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Understandably on such a cold night, nobody would dress their child in summer pyjamas with short sleeves and knee-length trousers. And it was cold even though the McCanns did not agree on that point:— She was wearing light trousers, white or light pink, that may have been pyjamas. She does not remember if they were patterned as it was dark. The material was lightweight/thin and could have been cotton.
— She also had a light top, with long sleeves.
Despite their memory gaps or lack of collusion they nevertheless presented the real pyjamas Madeleine had worn, or rather a duplicate(?) during various press appearances.
"Kate dressed Amelie in her sister's pyjamas and the baby said:
'Maddy's jammies. Where is Maddy?'
— Sie trug helle Hosen, weiß oder hell-pink, die Pyjamahosen hätten sein können. Sie erinnert sich nicht ob sie gemustert waren, da es dunkel war. Das Material war leicht/dünn und hätte Baumwolle sein können.
— Auch trug sie ein helles Oberteil, mit langen Ärmeln.
"Kate dressed Amelie in her sister's pyjamas and the baby said:
'Maddy's jammies. Where is Maddy?'
In 2008 private detectives with Oakley International, a company hired by Madeleine's Fund, questioned the consistency of the Tanner report and became more interested in the Smith sighting. Oakley prepared e-fit images – one based on Martin's description and the other on Mary's – but the Fund decided not to release them. This was in part because Martin Smith came to believe that the man he had seen was Gerry McCann – something Scotland Yard ruled out because witnesses placed Gerry in the tapas restaurant at 22:00 – and so releasing the e-fits risked feeding the conspiracy theories about the McCanns, which were at their height in 2008. When Scotland Yard became involved in 2011 and ruled out the Tanner sighting, they came to believe that it was the Smith sighting that gave them the approximate time of Madeleine's kidnap, and in October 2013 they released the Oakley International e-fits to coincide with a BBC Crimewatch reconstruction of the disappearance.
(Interesting that she seems to know that the efits were done by Martin and Mary Smith)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann#Smith_sightingThis seems to be the source of the rumour that Scotland Yard had ruled out Gerry being the man the Smiths saw because witnesses placed him in the Tapas at 22:00, that has entered the odd newspaper. But apart from the trusted friends and holidaymakers, there is no actual witness seeing him at the table at that exact time. And the walk between 5A and the crossing where the Smiths met the Gerry-lookalike can be reached in less than five minutes.
Oakley erstellte Phantombilder - eins aufgrund der Beschreibung von Martin und eins von Mary - aber der Fund entschied sie nicht zu veröffentlichen. Einerseits weil Martin Smith zu der Überzeugung kam, dass der Mann den er gesehen hatte, Gerry McCann war - etwas das Scotlad Yard ausschloss weil Zeugen Gerry um 22:00 Uhr im Tapas Restaurant gesehen hatten - und die Veröffentlichung der Phantombilder die Verschwörungstheorien über die McCanns angeheizt hätten....
(Interessant, dass sie zu wissen scheint, dass die efits auf Beschreibungen von Martin UND Mary Smith basierten)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann#Smith_sightingDies scheint die Quelle des Gerüchts zu sein, dass Scotland Yard Gerry als den Mann ausgeschlossen hat, den die Smiths gesehen haben, weil Zeugen ihn um 22:00 Uhr im Restaurant sahen, das in der ein oder anderen Zeitung verbreitet wurde. Aber außer den treuen Freunden und Miturlaubern gibt es keine wirklichen Zeugen, die ihn zu dieser exakten Zeit am Tisch gesehen haben. Und die Strecke zwischen 5A und der Kreuzung an der die Smiths das Gerry-Double sahen, kann in weniger als fünf Minuten begangen werden.