Then may I respectfully suggest that those people who cannot get their heads around how an account can change subtly from the witness, to the statement taker, via the translator and back again, need to get a serious grip on reality. How anyone can claim that their sympathy for the parents of a missing child evaporated because of these slight, completely understandable (given the circumstances) discrepancies is beyond me.
I can assure you that I have no problem in identifying what's real and what isn't. You may see changing stories as slight and understandable, I don't. There are more examples of changing stories but these two are particularly interesting because they were told so often, with actions. I wonder why, when the PJ files were examined, Kate McCann didn't notice that her story of slamming doors and closed curtains blowing in the wind contradicted what she said the morning after the event? Same with her daughter's comment, retold frequently, which was different to how she first reported it.
We all have our opinions and mine is that their accounts lack credibility and therefore it's difficult to be sympathetic.
