Daily Mail Headline; says: ' The hunt to find Madeleine McCann is focusing on a "missing hour" before she disappeared, it was revealed today. Portuguese police sources have given fresh details of the fateful night the little girl vanished. They now suggest the girl was checked on by her father Gerry at 9.05pm on 3 May and was alive and still in her bedroom at the resort in Praia da Luz. She was found to be missing when her mother Kate went in at 10pm.Sources within the Portuguese police now say it is possible she was kidnapped during this crucial period - contradicting earlier claims that she had been killed in the apartment.
The belief among some detectives that she had died at the scene followed the discovery by British sniffer dogs of specks of blood on a wall.This led senior sources to say they had "definitively abandoned" the theory that she was abducted and were convinced she died "as a result of negligence or murder". Results of DNA tests on the blood are expected next week. But today police sources revealed fresh details of the time just before Madeleine went missing.
Today police sources revealed fresh details of the time just before Madeleine went missing.
Jane Tanner, a friend of the McCanns who was on holiday with them, saw a man walking away with a child at around 9.30pm, some 25 minutes after Mr McCann's last visit.
Witness statements made by the McCanns and their friends have led police to consider that a kidnapper or killer may have been hiding in the apartment even as Mr McCann checked on her at 9.05pm.
According to a leaked report, Mr McCann later told police that a bedroom door he thought should have been shut may indeed have been open, indicating the kidnapper may already have entered the apartment and been hiding in wait.
Rachael Oldfield, a City recruitment consultant from London, said: "There would only have been a small window of opportunity for somebody to do it(abduct Madeleine) but presumably if somebody had been watching our movements then it would be possible."
It's time they got their script 'right' is it not? Make up their mind time and decide which version of the next chapter in the 'stage play' they are going to use. Or, skip the next few chapters and go right to the end and let Maddy be safely returned. I wonder if J.K.Rowling might be able to help them with the scipt writing?
