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Ze - Joaquim J.M. Baptista
• It was normal for the men of the dining group, to get up and leave the restaurant and return minutes later. The witness is not aware of where the men were going to but that they would be gone for about 15 minutes;

Joe (UK)Jeronimo Tomas Rodrigues Salcedas
Frequently, when I served the table I noticed that one or two elements of the group had left the restaurant. I could not imagine where they had gone to. After seeing the news stories, I figured that they had gone to check on their children

RICARDO (Cebola?)
ALEXANDRE DA LUZ OLIVEIRA
• It was usual, during these dinners, for one or two persons to get up and leave for around 15 minutes and on various occasions he saw a walkie talkie (likely the Payne baby monitor) on the table. He assumed that they would leave to go check on the children in their respective rooms;

• He remembers that on the 3rd of May one of the guests who was at the table left for ten minutes, as he was about to serve their starter, and was told to hold it for a few minutes—but it was 15 minutes before this guest returned, around 21H45;
• He does not remember having seen Madeleine’s parents leave the table but it is possible that someone may have left and the witness did not see them;
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I have been scrutinizing the statements to add highlights to the Hourly Timeline Tables http://madeleinemccann.aimoo.com/Comparison-Timetables-1-64869 and the Minute by Minute Reconstruction http://madeleinemccann.aimoo.com/Minute-By-Minute-Reconstruction/Minute-By-Minute-Simulated-Reconstruction-1-724051.html

Thursday Hourly Timetable http://madeleinemccann.aimoo.com/Comparison-Timetables/May-3rd-Thursday-Hourly-Timeline-Comparison-1-503751.html

Thursday night was when ROB and JT daughter was sick, in most statements, including Fiona Payne:
(Thursday)
"....the next people to leave were Matt and Russell together, erm, and that, again, I would assume is around the sort half nine mark, erm, just to fit in with the way they were checking the children. Erm, tut, and Matt, I do remember Matt coming back and saying well, you know, that ‘E**e had been sick so Russell was staying with her’, erm, and had told Jane, you know, ‘If you can kind of eat up and then go back and we’ll swap’. And I remember Jane wolfing down her main meal that had just arrived, erm, really quickly and then sort of heading back to relieve Russell. Erm, huh, I know everyone else has said this, because there was a lot of joking about Jane relieving Russell..."

She also tells about how Jane didn't go to breakfast one morning because their daughter had been sick all night. A night prior to Thursday.

"....one morning Russ was on his own, erm, with E**a, because E**e hadn’t been particularly, she had a runny nappy or something and had been up in the night and so Jane was sleeping in. I couldn’t tell you what day that was."

JANE TANNER
up late no breakfast
ROB took E&E to Mill with Matt

Fiona said ROB only with one daughter

JT said he took both to breakfast

There was no mention of their daughter being sick during the day (Thursday).

Was she sick Wednesday night (keeping Jane up and unable to go to breakfast Thursday morning) and again on Thursday night

or...

Was their daughter sick on the Wednesday and they 'used' the sequence of events for Thursday to account for ROB missing from the table for some time on Thursday night (established by waiters)...

Was he involved in something more sinister (attempting to 'jemmy' the shutters?) and Kate (according to plan) left almost immediately upon his return but hadn't been told he couldn't jemmy the shutters...Hence her proclaiming they were jemmied?

Just a thought....

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HiDeHo on Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:30 pm