McCanns sign Madeleine book deal

[AtW]

I got bored by this point

All your answers were much better than refusal to answer them - being unreliable, stressed, bored, pissed off witness is much better than the thoughts the police would have in absense of other leads.

AFAIK in some countries refusal to answer such questions in order to cooperate with police can be deemed obstruction of justice (not to be confused with right to remain silent for those who were actually charged with crimes).

[Peoplesoft bloke]

All your answers were much better than refusal to answer them - being unreliable, stressed, bored, pissed off witness is much better than the thoughts the police would have in absense of other leads.

AFAIK in some countries refusal to answer such questions in order to cooperate with police can be deemed obstruction of justice (not to be confused with right to remain silent for those who were actually charged with crimes).

Any such Country is an uncivilised tuliphole in my not at all humble opinion

[AtW]

If the police are so tulipe they are more interested in asking me a load a questions they already know the answers

It's common practice - ask same questions to lots of witnesses, this helps eliminate random disparities and help investigation. This is how it was working for a very long time.

to and they want to suspect me rather than looking for my missing kid then that's their problem.

There are police officers who ask such questions, other do searches, some other collate info from previous teams to decide on next steps: just because some officer interviewed her does not mean everything else stopped.

In the event my child was missing my number one priority would be his or her safe return.

According to the article she was asked by the police that her refusal to answer those questions (a fair few of them more than reasonable) may hamper investigation but her answer does not seem good enough to me.

Those refusals and lack of leads must have forced police to focus more resources on her - it was their duty ffs, they had to ask those questions and have to treat refusals with suspicion.

[Troll]

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.

Surely any police investigation starts with asking questions, recording the answers & then re-asking to see if there are any inconsistencies

When people commit crimes they concoct a story to provide an alibi or deflect suspicion. It is the Polices job to challenge that story

[AtW]

Any such Country is an uncivilised tuliphole in my not at all humble opinion

Obstruction of justice might be hard to prove, but contempt charge is very much viable but that's not the point - anybody who was remotely near that point and then refused to answer police questions would be treated with great suspicion, if I remember correctly one British guy there was villified and after police questioning was let off.

[TimberWolf]

I find it bizarre that she didn't answer those questions, if the couple are innocent, to rule herself out of the investigation and let the police concentrate resources elsewhere. Did she ever answer them, or give a reason for not doing so?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I dunno why I bothered arguing - you two have obviously already decided that you know something I don't. You don't have the guts to come out and say it though. All I'm saying is that everyone's innocent until/unless proven otherwise and that the Police line of questioning was so inane that it would be sensible just to say nothing. As to "hampering the investigation" - Plod seemed to be doing a good job of that themselves.

As others have said, these questions are more about trying to incriminate her than find the missing child. If I was innocent I'd be annoyed at that and I'd consider I'd excercised remarkable self control in refusing to say a word.

But you know better of course.

[Troll]

I dunno why I bothered arguing - you two have obviously already decided that you know something I don't. You don't have the guts to come out and say it though. All I'm saying is that everyone's innocent until/unless proven otherwise and that the Police line of questioning was so inane that it would be sensible just to say nothing. As to "hampering the investigation" - Plod seemed to be doing a good job of that themselves.

As others have said, these questions are more about trying to incriminate her than find the missing child. If I was innocent I'd be annoyed at that and I'd consider I'd excercised remarkable self control in refusing to say a word.

But you know better of course.

I have only quoted the fact that she refused to answer 48 pertinent questions & It may have been better in the circumstances to have provided answers.

The efficiency of the local police force is one factor in the investigation & it would have been helpful to have eliminated any doubt from the McCanns to shift the focus onto other areas

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I have only quoted the fact that she refused to answer 48 pertinent questions & It may have been better in the circumstances to have provided answers.

The efficiency of the local police force is one factor in the investigation & it would have been helpful to have eliminated any doubt from the McCanns to shift the focus onto other areas

Those questions were not pertinent - they are highly impertinent.

[Troll]

Those questions were not pertinent - they are highly impertinent.

There we agree to differ