May I preface that although this 'story' is pure speculation, it is arrived at using details and circumstances that have come to my attention that may or may not be proven to be true.

I have put my thoughts and theories into a story form...I would welcome any input on any portion of this story that would be impossible to have happened and remind you it is only my opinion and does not necessarily represent the truth about Maddie's disappearance....

Basically it is a compilation of what I have already posted about what I believe may have happened.

Tuesday night...K & G arrive home to children crying...they learn that MrsFenn from the apartment above was concerned and advised MW...who in turn had contacted them to return back to the apartment.

Wednesday night, they once again left the children alone...Mrs Fenn heard someone crying 'daddy, daddy daddy...' (or Maddie, Maddie Maddie)

Kate returned back to the apartment to find Maddie crying and causing a disturbance...Mrs Fenn heard loud shouting and this may have been Kate getting abnormally angry and possibly accidentally causing Maddies death. Maybe she was resentful that Gerry hadn't taken the time to watch the kids...

She was so horrified at what had happened, she was calling her name..'Maddie, Maddie, Maddie' trying to rouse her from her stillness.

Gerry arrived home and after a while everything went quiet....

G & K had to decide what to do....

Was it worth taking a chance calling the police?...If Maddie had died for any other reason than the result of violence or abuse then that may have been an option...but there were obvious signs to point to Kate being guilty of a moment of anger and they couldn't risk calling the police and Kate being arrested.

They called their best friends in the next apartment ..ROB and JT....they needed to unload the enormity of what had happened and share it with someone they trusted......Four heads were better than two...They needed ideas what to do in these circumstances...

The decision was made that it was too risky to bring in the police...not only would Kate be arrested but they would all be up for scrutiny and possible charges of negligence.

The next thing was what to do with Maddy's body...they certainly couldnt leave her in the apartment because of the twins.

They laid her under the sofa out of sight until they decided what to do.

How were they going to explain her death to everyone else at home? What were they going to tell the rest of the tapas 7?

The best they could come up with was to fake an abduction....in the meantime they would have to tell the rest of the T7 that she had died accidentally and it was in everyones best interest to stick with a story, so, although Gerry and Kate would have to stay in PdL the rest could leave and get home safely.

The next morning they refused the cleaners (for obvious reasons) and proceeded to prepare the apartment for an abduction...the chosen time was to be during their evening meal at the tapas.

Firstly they needed to clean the apartment and find a suitable place for Maddie.

Gerry's tennis bag would be the only suitable way of hiding her and moving her.

Kate sat down with Maddies lifeless body on her lap and gave her a last hug goodbye...she wasn't thinking about the cadaver scent that was now on her jeans and on her hands...which she would transfer to the keychain and her bible...and of course..cuddlecat...

She wrapped her in her favourite pink blanket that she always slept with...and they placed her in Gerry's tennis bag...

Gerry cleaned some blood behind the couch, not realising that the scent had attached itself to his shoe.

The bag containing Maddies body was taken next door to ROB and JT's apartment, out of the way of the twins once they were up in the morning running around, and left there until they could decide what to do.

Gerry went to the supermarket to pick up some cleaning materials and a bottle of New Zealand wine...they needed something to help get them through this awful situation...

On his way to the supermarket he, unknowingly, left the scent from his shoe, which would later be picked up by the sniffer dogs brought in by the PJ the following day.

He took a walk down to the beach to see if there was a suitable, temporary burial place for Maddie.

Again he left the scent from his shoes, picked up by the dogs the following day.

During the day they arranged the plan...possibly telling the rest of the tapas about maddies accidental death...Feigning an achilles heel would explain not going to play tennis, and of course would mean he wouldn't have to explain the disappearing tennis bag.....cleaning the apartment.

At some point during the day they took Maddie to a temporary resting place.

The plan for the evening was to act as normal and meet up with the rest of the tapas 9.

They would 'jemmy' the shutters to indicate it was an abduction, but they wouldn't do that until the twins were sound asleep...Gerry would come back later during the dinner.

They locked the door.

Everyone arrived at the tapas...JT maybe stayed in one of the apartments to act as a lookout while Gerry fixed the shutters.....maybe she didn't want to leave her children alone....

Once Gerry and Kate arrived at the tapas, Gerry gave everyone the 'heads up' about what was going to be happening and after 10 mins he returned to the apartment to fix the shutters...by this time the twins should have been deeply asleep (sedatives?)

He met Jes Wilkins on the way....They talked about daughters, fathers, families. Gerry was relaxed and friendly. They discussed the babysitting dilemmas at the resort and Gerry said that he and Kate would have stayed in too, if they had not been on holiday in a group.*
Whether Gerry tried the shutters or not...he arrived back at the tapas bar at 9.25pm and asked ROB to go try and 'jemmy' the shutters as he had been held up in conversation with Jes Wilkins.

5 mins later at 9.30pm ROB left the bar to go to Apartment 5A to make sure the shutters were jemmied so that the abduction theory could be put into place.

It wasn't working...the shutters were not the kind that could be jemmied from the outside (as confirmed later by MW)...ROB and Gerry shared several text messages back and forth trying to think what to do.

Kate was back at the tapas, waiting for her cue...

She went over and over in her head that it was going to be about an abduction...She was to go back to the apartment and the shutters would be jemmied so they could blame it on abduction....Gerry was on his phone and chatting with the quiz lady...but Kate knew her cue was to leave once ROB had returned.

ROB returned at 9.55pm and Kate immediately left...she had to get back to the apartment as soon as possible before anything went wrong with the plan or someone noticed the jemmied shutters...

She had to have been scared that it would all go wrong and they would be found out but Gerry had assured her that as long as she remembered it was an abduction then everything would be fine...It kept going through her head...abduction...

She arrived back at the apartment and immediately cried out about the abduction...'They've taken her!..they've taken her' she screamed as she ran back to the tapas to tell everyone...That comment will make sure people know its an abduction....She told everyone that she knew it was an abduction because the shutters were jemmied...They weren't...Gerry had not had the chance to tell her that before she left.....

It was pandemonium everywhere....Everyone gathered together to help look for little Maddie...The tapas 7 knew there was no point looking...in fact DW was not as eager as others to be drawn into the lie and hesitated before finally leaving the bar.

Gerry had to make sure everyone got their story straight...They spent time in the apartment going through everything

Phone calls to the family so that everyone 'knew' what happened and most importantly a call to Sky news at 10.10pm...once they had the story as abduction it would stop anyone questioning the truth.

Mrs Fenn offered to call the police but it was too soon...they needed more time to et everything in place....

Finally at 10.40pm the police were called....

At some pont the 'jemmied' shutters story was changed...They decided that they would have to admit to leaving the door unlocked...even though they had secured it when they left...there is no way they would leave the kids and their belongings open to the possibility of someone stealing anything...

They would just have to live with the accusations of negligence and funny looks when they used the excuse of leaving the door open in case of a possible fire...

It was better than telling the truth.... Cuddlecat was used too.....Kate mentioned it had been removed and put on a shelf...that would indicate a stranger in the room...they would suggest it was Maddies favourite thing to sleep with....and later...because JT was not at the tapas she could mention about seeing a stranger carrying what could have been Maddie...She had seen people carrying their children back from the creche at night. so she would just describe that.....Keeping it generic as they didn't want to limit the possibility of who may become the 'fall guy'...

(to be cont.....)


*According to Bridget O'Donnell Message # 2 http://groups.msn.com/madeleinemccann/newspapers.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=24&LastModified=4675663914425907104