ID - announces that she will read an extract from the interview.
(Note: it hasn't yet been possible to find the original article. This is a Joana Morais' English translation)
“The little girl died in the apartment. Everything is in the book, which is faithful to the investigation until September: it reflects the understanding of the Portuguese and the English police and of the Public Ministry. For all of us, until then, the concealment of the cadaver, the simulation of abduction and the exposure or abandonment were proved.”
ID - asks whether the extract was actually worded as it was reported.
ED Yes.
ID reads another extract:
“And the issue of the bedroom window, where Maddie and her siblings slept, is vital. It leads to simulation. The question is whether or not it was open when Jane says that she saw the man carrying the child. The little girl’s mother, Kate, is the only person that mentions the open window.”
ID - pauses reading...
ED answers that he thinks so.
ID - reads another extract from the interview:
“Due to the type of fluid, we policemen, experts, say that the cadaver was frozen or preserved in the cold and when placed into the car boot, with the heat at that time [of the year], part of the ice melted. On a kerb, for example, something fell from the car boot’s right side, above the wheel.”
ED says that it was what Gonçalo Amaral said.
ID - resumes her reading:
“It may be said that this is speculation, but it’s the only way to explain what happened there.”
ID - asks, if the sentence "the cadaver was frozen" hadn’t existed, would the newspaper have had a banner headline.
ED says "perhaps", he can't say.
2) Defence lawyers.
a) Santos Oliveira (GA lawyer) questions
SO – Did you have any prior knowledge of the case before the interview?
ED answers "yes".
SO – Taking into account the information you had, was the book unexpected?
ED says that after the McCanns were made arguidos the case was widely discussed.
SO - asks whether the information was easily accessed using the internet for the UK media.
ED says he was amazed by the depth and volume of detail given by the UK Press. He says they (the journalists) stayed up very late to see what would be printed in the front pages of the British tabloids the following day.