Does It Matter What Was Said?

Daily Mail Headline 'Kate McCann screamed from the balcony 'they've taken her', claims new witness'; says: 'A new witness who was the first to see Kate McCann moments after she realised her daughter Madeleine had disappeared has given a dramatically different account of what happened that night. A waiter at the Portuguese holiday complex where the family were staying said instead of running back to the tapas bar where she was dining with her husband Gerry and friends, Kate McCann raised the alarm from the balcony of their apartment.

The Portuguese man said that instead of running back to the tapas bar where the McCanns and their friends were dining Kate McCann screamed: "They've taken her, they've taken her, they've taken our little girl."

This version of events contrasts dramatically with the account friends of the McCanns have given. It has previously been claimed that the 39-year-old GP raised the alarm when she ran back to the restaurant on 3 May shouting: "Madeleine's gone, Madeleine's gone."

Detectives leading the case into the four-year-old's disappearance have always insisted her first words were "they've taken her" but have only today revealed she screamed these words from the balcony of the family's holiday apartment at the Ocean Club in the Portuguese town of Praia da Luz.

According to the Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias, detectives in the Policia Judiciaria — Portugal's criminal investigation department — are looking particularly closely at the new evidence.

They are understood to view this as suspicious because it indicates that Mrs McCann had already ruled out the possibility of Madeleine wandering off, and regard it as possible evidence that she was already engaged in a cover-up.

But friends of the couple have always insisted Mrs McCann reacted with such horror that they are convinced she could not have faked it.

They re-interviewed at least three Ocean Club workers —a receptionist and two waiters at the tapas restaurant last week.

The waiter is reported to have told colleagues Mrs McCann was in "a state of panic". Mr McCann and the seven friends dining with the couple then came running out to see what had happened.

IMO - In My Opinion
Does it really matter what was said? How is all this nit picking scrutiny going to bring Madeleine back? The PJ should have spent more time looking for Madeleine in the first place and less time spent nit picking all the irrelevant bits in an attempt to find something that fitted into their preposterous theory. It's time to leave Kate McCann alone ... she's suffered enough recently under the wild gesticulations of the media. This news story is a smokescreen ... a filler ... more subterfuge. It really is irrelevant whether Kate said 'they have taken her' or 'Madeleine is gone' .... let us focus on finding Madeleine eh Mr Pied Piper? The general public are now getting sick of the irrelevance you use to sell your papers!!!