Mar 4

HiDeHo

Most of us prefer to believe Maddie's death was an accident...and that it would maybe implicate others' who had maybe tried to help resuscitate her etc....or maybe they had worries about repercussions of accusations of neglect of their own children while they were at the tapas....hence their 'silence' or efforts to cover up.

Maybe it wasn't an accident....I can't believe it was murder...but I can see it it as manslaughter..and that would explain the reason to keep it 'quiet'...

A moment of being out of control and Maddie succumbs to the 'injury'...not on purpose...but something they are accountable for.

If one is to presume most of the details we 'know' are true...

We 'know' it had to have happened more than a couple of hours before the 10.00pm discovery because of the cadaver dogs..so to try to make sense of the night out as if it was a normal night is pointless...it was 'planned'

Trying to put a timeline on when they checked on the children is irrelevant...at least where Maddie is concerned.

The McCanns and anyone else who knew the details went out that night 'ready' for the planned moment of 'faking' the abduction discovery.

The night, at least for those 'in the know.' was planned...they obviously would all try to make it seem normal but I wonder how many other nights there was the 'supposed' traffic back and forth to the rooms..it would have been obvious to others that this night was different.

For Kate to have told of the jemmied shutters tells me it was part of the plan that had gone wrong...She didn't check that someone (Gerry? ROB? Jane) had fixed them to appear that way and was faced afterwards with appearing to make it up out of nowhere...

Someone in here gave a detailed 'story' (does anyone have it?) that Gerry may have instilled in her head...to the point that the ending of 'Theyve taken her' was according to the lines fed to her by Gerry and not about what she found....we know that when she went back to the room she was planning her responses...but human nature as it is...is not always replicated when re-enacted....

Planned responses would have been very contrived relative to normal responses....I think it is fairly apparent how most of their resposes fall into the 'contrived' heading.....

Regardless of everyone having a different method of coping with a situation, that coping mechanism would be related to grief, and it would be individual...Not shared by both Gerry and Kate.....

The overcompensation of highlighting their contrived 'events' such as the insistence of an abduction...and later with examples similar to Gerry's insistance that Kate is innocent etc. as opposed to take advantage of the outpouring of help and the support that is vital to anyone suffering the loss of a child....is all very 'telling'....

Their plan has extended far beyond that night and became as 'creative' as their support team can muster.

That 'day' however, it was just them....Maybe a moment when one of them couldn't cope...Something happened and Maddie died as a result..Not preplanned but something that ended her life nonetheless.

They wouldn't have known what to do...They were on holiday with friends...They no doubt trusted their friends (ROB and JT?) and needed their help to deal with what I'm sure was a devastating circumstance for them.

Their planning would need to include a scenario that would be believed. Its hard to think of anything else but abduction...but it would have to be 'set up' to appear that way...The alternatives would mean that Maddies body was found and that would have been an impossible plan to execute as a murder enquiry would have created far too many questions and of course the forensics.

With the plan in place...the night was set up to appear normal...Maybe the other friends were told that Maddie had sadly died but it was in the best interest of everyone for the truth not to be known especially under Portuguese law.

All this time, not one of them was aware of the media frenzy that would follow.

They all appeared at the tapas bar that night as normal...possibly some of them not aware of the arrangements but more than likely aware of Maddies death (I really believe the friends would have been out searching had they felt that Maddie was missing)

Gerry was making last minute phone calls...totally unaware that months later these phone calls would be up for scrutiny....maybe they were back and forth to ROB setting the last details in place

ROB had it in place to 'do' what he was supposed to do...(maybe fix the shutters?) and arrived back at the tapas so that Kate knew that everything was in place for her to leave and five minutes later 'make the discovery' of the 'abduction'.

'They have taken her!' and leaving the twins in the apartment alone to go back to tell the others at the tapas is an example of how it appears contrived...

'OK Kate...you get back to the apartment just after ROB returns and thats when you see they have taken her....You have to let us know as soon as possible...Leave the rest to us...We will make sure Sky knows...we need to let everyone know its an abduction...Its human nature for people to believe the first thing they are told and question anything thereafter.... '

The media was what they needed...not to help them find Maddie...but to make sure that everyone believed it to be an abduction...

What they didn't count on was the PJ being as competant as they were...Noone depending on the police force to find their child would make negative comments and possibly risk alienating them......but the McCanns needed to establish incompetence in case they needed a defence....

The details of how they 'hid' Maddie is hard to establish...but their 'plan' of that night is relatively simple.

The biggest mistake anyone can make is giving 'too much' information..it overcompensates and is viewed as suspicious.

The truth doesnt need to be explained...