Can we have her reply please? I don't see why you think this was a trap - there is a huge difference between not fearing being made arguidos when you know you are innocent and are confident that the legal process will arrive at the same conclusion and the feelings of anger, despair, frustration you would feel about a book read by thousands that claimed to tell the truth about you but which in reality was a pack of lies, exploiting your miising child and written for a profit.
2) Defence lawyers.
a) TVI lawyers' questions
TVI - You said that "everybody in Portugal believes the book". What makes you think this?
SH - says that in PDL some people believe Kate and Gerald, but outside they don't.
TVI - Do you suppose so? Have you any objective basis to think so?
SH - says she has knows a Portuguese nurse, in the hospital where she works in Canada, who believes what the book says.
TVI - Do you know if this book and the documentary were broadcast at the same moment?
SH - says when one and the other were launched.
TVI - Are the thesis identical?
SH - notes that in the documentary the actors representing Kate and Gerald were depicted drinking a lot, but the underlying theories are similar. She adds one must pay for the book whereas the access to the documentary is free.
TVI - Have you seen "Madeleine was here"?
SH - did, as many people.
TVI - Then why should one believe more a documentary than the other?
SH - argues the Amaral documentary had more audience.
TVI - Why?
SH - doesn't know. She hasn't watched all the programs.
TVI - Then why do you think that one is more watched than the other?
The judge overrules : the issue is "what kind of effect?"
b) Valentim de Carvalho (DVD production/distribution) lawyer's questions
VC - You don't know if Madeleine died. Your conviction is she's alive. The idea that something happened to her other than abduction is also a possibility. Do you think the McCanns are angry because such a theory exists that is different from theirs?
SH - hesitates, then says she doesn't think so, refers to the loss of hope.
VC – Have you seen the TVI documentary, have you read the final conclusion?
The judge overrules.
c) Guerra & Paz's lawyer's questions
GP - first asks if Susan Hubbard knows Gonçalo Amaral and when she met the McCanns for the first time.
SH - answers she once saw Gonçalo Amaral somewhere in PDL and met the McCanns a few days after her arrival in PDL (3 days after Madeleine disappeared).
GP - How did the couple react when they were made arguidos?
SH - says the McCanns didn't fear the arguido status because they knew they were innocent.
GP - We could then expect the same reaction after the book was published. You, as a close friend who saw them almost every day, must know better than anyone. How did they react when they were made arguidos?
SH - answers they wanted to protect the twins and didn't know what to do. They thought of taking them to Spain. They reacted with sadness (Gerry McCann with anger) because the police wouldn't be looking for their daughter.
GP - Did the Fund and the private investigators go on searching for Madeleine?
SH - answers yes.
GP - And after the book was published?
SH - answers yes.
