McCanns sign Madeleine book deal

[kandr]

I hope that's true... if not you'd be putting Menelaus to shame

Of course its true, and he almost saved a ned from her violent man. All in a days work for superstrone.

[AtW]

you have no idea of the circumstances that led to her refusing to answer questions.

What those "circumstances" have got to do with reasonable factual questions such as

"12- Who contacted the authorities? "?

If she does not know, or can't remember as she was under great stress then fine - just answer that.

Or:

"15- Did any neighbour offer you help after the disappearance?"

I just can't see how yes/no answer on this could be possibly misinterpreted.

The job of police is to establish what happened at what time - nothing wrong with them asking such questions whatsoever. Now granted this list is based on stuff posted by Troll, maybe this is wrong list, but if it is right list then (in my view) refusing to answer these reasonable questions is not reasonable behavior.

I mean FFS, it's not like police had millions of witnesses and instead of asking them they ganged up on the family - who'd else they'd ask those questions?!?!?!

[AtW]

Are you going to accuse the family of something you moronic piece of russian dog tulip? As I said I know the family so I am well in my bounds to call you that on this topic.

Call whoever you want - including their lawyers, let them review this thread and if they've got a legal problem with it (difference in opinion is another matter) then they'll be able to contact me via PM and I'll either discuss it myself or involved relevant people to handle it.

Now don't argue - you've been called now, go call them and let's see what independent review of what I said shows.

And if you don't (as I expect you to) then try to understand one thing - never threaten legal action unless you are prepared to carry it out.

[Troll]

WHS. Her lawyer probably told her not to answer questions from an incompetent police force who were looking for a quick and easy solution.
But as Troll is a complete and utter moron, he didn't think of that.

The proportion of child homicides in which the perpetrator is a parent is exceptionally high among infants".Between 1995 and 1999 in England and Wales, 80% of homicide victims under one year old were killed by a parent.

In 2005/2006 in England and Wales, 24 children were killed at the hands of their parents

So all things considered - the questions asked would seem to be very reasonable points needing answers if I was the detective leading the case.You may or may not infer any guilt from her failing to respond to answering those questions but just to accept their story at face value is a trifle naive

Is she going to answer them in her book?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

What those "circumstances" have got to do with reasonable factual questions such as

"12- Who contacted the authorities? "?

If she does not know, or can't remember as she was under great stress then fine - just answer that.

Or:

"15- Did any neighbour offer you help after the disappearance?"

I just can't see how yes/no answer on this could be possibly misinterpreted.

The job of police is to establish what happened at what time - nothing wrong with them asking such questions whatsoever. Now granted this list is based on stuff posted by Troll, maybe this is wrong list, but if it is right list then (in my view) refusing to answer these reasonable questions is not reasonable behavior.

I mean FFS, it's not like police had millions of witnesses and instead of asking them they ganged up on the family - who'd else they'd ask those questions?!?!?!

It is easy to see how this could be misinterpreted - they ask other witnesses and Mr Mcann - any hint of disparity in answers and she becomes "unreliable". There are far too many morons who seem to think that anyone who's innocent should have to put up with loads of intrusive Police interrogation because they have "nothing to hide". In fact innocent people probably have the most to lose from being interrogated.

[AtW]

It is easy to see how this could be misinterpreted - they ask other witnesses and Mr Mcann - any hint of disparity in answers and she becomes "unreliable".

Well, that's how witness accounts work, what the hell do you expect police to do - never ask witnesses? It is expected that there will be disparity in answers, in fact given her position a lot of errors in answers can be written down to massive stress and shock, but why refuse simple factual answers? Even simple "I don't know / I don't remember" would be acceptable answer (certainly better than refusal).

According to Troll's post (and I am not saying it is authentic post - if you have problems with it then talk to him or show references showing the opposite) she was asked:

"- Are you aware that in not answering the questions you are jeopardizing the investigation, which seeks to discover what happened to your daughter?

- “Yes, if that’s what the investigation thinks.”"

So this begs question - if your had your child disappeared like that, what would you care more about - avoiding any potential discrepancies in witness account that may put you in jail wrongly OR giving all answers you can in hope it will help locate missing child, and in the process not looking very suspicious making ourself obvious target for police in abscence of other leads.

I know what I'd choose.

[Troll]

Now I assume that Troll's list of unasnwered questions is correct here.

HTH

HTH

[AtW]

HTH

HTH

Well, that settles questions of authenticity of those questions/anwers (unless somone can show otherwise).

[Peoplesoft bloke]

1- On May 3 2007, around 22:00, when you entered the apartment, what did you see? What did you do? Where did you look? What did you touch?

As if I can remember you berk - I was distressed


2- Did you search inside the master bedroom wardrobe? (she replied that she wouldn’t answer)

possibly


3- (shown 2 photographs of her bedroom wardrobe) Can you describe its contents?

Why? are you blind?


4- Why had the curtain behind the sofa in front of the side window (whose photo was shown to her) been tampered with? Did somebody go behind that sofa?

OK Poirot I admit it - I am a closet curtain tamperer


5- How long did your search of the apartment take after you detected your daughter Madeleine’s disappearance?

11 minutes 23.18792 seconds FFS


6- Why did you say from the start that Madeleine had been abducted?

Because there was no sign of her and no way a kid of that age could have got far alone

7- Assuming Madeleine had been abducted, why did you leave the twins home alone to go to the ‘Tapas’ and raise the alarm? Because the supposed abductor could still be in the apartment.

Because when one is distressed, one occasionally lacks the sharp quick-witted insight of the plod

8- Why didn’t you ask the twins, at that moment, what had happened to their sister or why didn’t you ask them later on?

Good call - I never thought of that - you really are a feckin genius


9- When you raised the alarm at the ‘Tapas’ what exactly did you say and what were your exact words?

Where are you getting these from? Can you tell me the exact words you used when they told you they'd found out who your Dad was?

10- What happened after you raised the alarm in the ‘Tapas’?

A crack squad of Special Forces and Police arrived in 13 seconds

11- Why did you go and warn your friends instead of shouting from the verandah?

Good point - I'll do better next time

12- Who contacted the authorities?

Don't you keep any records of this stuff?

13- Who took place in the searches?

Loads of us

14- Did anyone outside of the group learn of Madeleine’s disappearance in those following minutes?

How would I know? I am one person, not several

15- Did any neighbour offer you help after the disappearance?

?

16- What does “we let her down” mean?

Don't they have dictionaries here?

17- Did Jane tell you that night that she’d seen a man with a child?

?

18- How were the authorities contacted and which police force was alerted?

FFS

19- During the searches, with the police already there, where did you search for Maddie, how and in what way?

Ask them

20- Why did the twins not wake up during that search or when they were taken upstairs?

Why did some kids not wake up? are you serious?

21- Who did you phone after the occurrence?

How the flip would I know? You will have all the records by now



I got bored by this point - in the unlikely event any of this is true I don't blame her for not answering.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Well, that's how witness accounts work, what the hell do you expect police to do - never ask witnesses? It is expected that there will be disparity in answers, in fact given her position a lot of errors in answers can be written down to massive stress and shock, but why refuse simple factual answers? Even simple "I don't know / I don't remember" would be acceptable answer (certainly better than refusal).

According to Troll's post (and I am not saying it is authentic post - if you have problems with it then talk to him or show references showing the opposite) she was asked:

"- Are you aware that in not answering the questions you are jeopardizing the investigation, which seeks to discover what happened to your daughter?

- “Yes, if that’s what the investigation thinks.”"

So this begs question - if your had your child disappeared like that, what would you care more about - avoiding any potential discrepancies in witness account that may put you in jail wrongly OR giving all answers you can in hope it will help locate missing child, and in the process not looking very suspicious making ourself obvious target for police in abscence of other leads.

I know what I'd choose.

If the police are so tulipe they are more interested in asking me a load a questions they already know the answers to and they want to suspect me rather than looking for my missing kid then that's their problem. In the event my child was missing my number one priority would be his or her safe return.