@ gilet
In my first post I also used the word broken. Perhaps you can give us a rundown of how many times the family/friends used that word too ?
It is obvious from the statements that the details of the scenario described by each individual was given to them directly in a phone call by either Kate or Gerry and was not something they were told second hand. That each was told the same story with the same glaring untruth is worthy of debate. Whether you think so or not matters not a jot.
What untruth?
I am not aware of any untruth?
I am aware that of the four people you mentioned, two use the word broken.
One, Jill, used the term "broken open" which is another way of saying jemmied/forced.
And another used the term broken, the elderly Mr. Healy.
Perhaps his daughter had used the phrase "broken open" when talking to both him and her friend Jill and he had foreshortened it in his highly pressured response to the journalist.
The other two did not use the term broken.
So your problem seems to be that Gerry when phoning his friends didn't change his story at all and that these people remembered what had been said to them and repeated it to the press.
And Kate didn't change the story at all and that her contacts remembered more or less the same thing and told it to the press.
I really am at a total loss to see what you are getting at.
o summarise my position in this debate.
Gerry and Kate phoned their friends and told them what they honestly believed had happened to the shutters.
They believed they had been forced/broken open/jemmied.
They believed this because the shutters had been closed when they left and were open when they got home.
Then the friends who they had told repeated the same story to the press.
Where is the problem that you are apparently finding in all this?
What is the issue?
It is perfectly simple.
And why after three pages of debate are you very stupidly proclaiming that nobody thinks it matters and it is worthy of debate is quite beyond me unless you are playing a silly game.
