Kate's refusal on legal advice to answer those 48 questions.

[Eleanor]

You forgot the humdinger  ...  "Is true, that in England,  you even considered handing  Madeleine's custody over to a relative ?"

Although I suppose there could be no misinterprting a straightforward   "No, it is not true"  given in response

Here's the thing though ...  that same question was also put to Gerry McCann  ( was it true that Kate had considered handing Madeleine's custody over to a relative  ) 

He didn't give a definitive   "No it's not true"   either

He just said 'not as far as he was aware'

What does the forum make of that  ?

So Gerry was asked if Kate had considered handing the custody of Madeleine to  a relative?  What a crock of shite. 

So they were after Kate.  But we knew that already.

[Alfred R Jones]

You forgot the humdinger  ...  "Is true, that in England,  you even considered handing  Madeleine's custody over to a relative ?"

Although I suppose there could be no misinterprting a straightforward   "No, it is not true"  given in response

Here's the thing though ...  that same question was also put to Gerry McCann  ( was it true that Kate had considered handing Madeleine's custody over to a relative  ) 

He didn't give a definitive   "No it's not true"   either

He just said 'not as far as he was aware'

What does the forum make of that  ?

How would he know what Kate was considering unless she told him?  So, 'not as far as he was aware' was the correct response.  It was probably said incredulously or sardonically in any  case, manner and tone of voice is completely lost in these transcripts.

[Alfred R Jones]

Where did the police get this idea from anyway? 

[Alfred R Jones]

I think the fact that you are still discussing this after seven years is a little crazy

there is that as well. 

[jassi]

It does make you wonder. Maybe Leicestershire police spoke to Social services about the McCanns.

[pegasus]

The right to remain silent is an important part of UK law, and I assume of Portugeuse law too.
It is a right designed in part to protect innocent people.
It is a very strange idea, that if someone takes the right to remain silent they must be guilty, and if someone doesn't they must be innocent.
If that were so, we wouldn't need courts at all, would we?

[Benice]

You forgot the humdinger  ...  "Is true, that in England,  you even considered handing  Madeleine's custody over to a relative ?"

Although I suppose there could be no misinterprting a straightforward   "No, it is not true"  given in response

Here's the thing though ...  that same question was also put to Gerry McCann  ( was it true that Kate had considered handing Madeleine's custody over to a relative  ) 

He didn't give a definitive   "No it's not true"   either

He just said 'not as far as he was aware'

What does the forum make of that  ?

IMO he was being sarcastic - as Kate also was in her one and only reply.

From memory so could be wrong - but wasn't that particular question lifted from some newspaper article?    How professional is that?

[Eleanor]

It does make you wonder. Maybe Leicestershire police spoke to Social services about the McCanns.

Maybe CdM made it up.  Just like they made it up about Gerry not being Madeleine's father.

[Alfred R Jones]

Maybe CdM made it up.  Just like they made it up about Gerry not being Madeleine's father.

So they did.  I'd forgotten that.  What a piece of trash that paper is.  I'm surprised the police didn't ask Gerry that one actually.

[Eleanor]

So they did.  I'd forgotten that.  What a piece of trash that paper is.  I'm surprised the police didn't ask Gerry that one actually.

He might have lamped them one.  But let's face it, they used every other trick in the book with false forensics.

[ferryman]

He might have lamped them one.  But let's face it, they used every other trick in the book with false forensics.

I suppose it is (just!) conceivable that they didn't understand the forensics themselves.

But even if that's the case, there's still no excuse.

They were surrounded by people who did.

They only had to ask ...

[Montclair]

So they did.  I'd forgotten that.  What a piece of trash that paper is.  I'm surprised the police didn't ask Gerry that one actually.

IIRC, it wasn't CdM that carried the story but it was 24 Horas.

[ferryman]

So they did.  I'd forgotten that.  What a piece of trash that paper is.  I'm surprised the police didn't ask Gerry that one actually.

I'm not sure that they quite made it up.

There might very well be a clue in the files as to the provenance of the leak ...

[Eleanor]

IIRC, it wasn't CdM that carried the story but it was 24 Horas.

That'll do.  It was a Portuguese gutter rag.

[Eleanor]

I'm not sure that they quite made it up.

There might very well be a clue in the files as to the provenance of the leak ...

Not...........?  Oh well, that wouldn't surprise me.