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But there does seem to be another conflicting piece of information with the Jane Tanner abductor sighting...
She says that she saw a child being carried away under a blanket (Daily Mail). But she also says that she identified Madeleine's pyjamas but didn't know it was Madeleine.
How could she see the pyjamas if the child was under the blanket as stated? It is possible that it was Madeleine's own blanket - and most children have the holey-type Mothercare ones in the UK, so she may have been able to see the colour of the pyjamas through the holes.
There doesn't seem to be a description of the blanket anywhere and we don't know whether it was a hotel blanket - or her own.
If the hotel/villa bed blanket was missing when Mrs McCann returned then she would almost be certain that Madeleine didn't wander off as it would be too big for her to drag with her. So she must have thought that she had been taken immediately.
If it was a hotel bed blanket that the abductor used, this swings the possibility to either the burglar theory - as it would have been unpremeditated, or that the abductor came unprepared.
The other possibility is that it was someone with access to the room, including the hotel staff and the McCann party. I'm willing to bet that the police didn't do any blanket counting.
The only other possibility is that if the blanket was the same as the hotel's, but Madeleine's hotel bed blanket was left untouched, then the witnessed blanket must have come from another room - or the linen cupboard in Mark Warner's.
If Jane Tanner witnessed the abductor carrying the child in a completely different colour blanket, other than the hotel's or Madeleine's own, then it is likely it was a premeditated act. She may, of course, not remembered the colour but if she saw enough to see colour of the the pyjamas, then she it is likely that she saw the colour of the blanket.
I would have thought that this would have been relatively easy for the police to assess the options. But maybe all information has to be kept from the public domain.
It is a pity that there is not more information given on the blanket, as, if someone found one, - or even a scrap of it, they might hand it in to the police.
Has anyone seen any information on the type of blanket that Jane Tanner says she saw?