Looking at Gerry's statement "Between the 28th April, the day they arrived and the time the disappearance was discovered, he says that nothing unusual happened, only referring to an episode on the morning of the 3rd May, when Madeleine asked the witness the reason why they had not gone to her room when the twins were crying. As he did not hear anything, the witness did not go to the bedroom, however he finds his daughter's comment to be strange, maybe because it was the first time that she had made it."
From Kate's statement "Between the day of the arrival, April 28th, and the time that Madeleine's disappearance was discovered, the interviewee says that she noticed nothing unusual. She reports only one episode where, on the morning of Thursday May 3rd, Madeleine asked the interviewee why she had not come to look in the bedroom when the twins were crying. The interviewee states that she had heard nothing and had therefore not gone into the bedroom. She thought her daughter's comment strange because it was the first time she had talked about it. "
Those two paragraphs are really saying exactly the same thing. Did they have the same translator?
Kate "Thus, the interview was done in the presence of an interpreter: Natalia C.F. de A. "
Gerry "Being of British nationality he does not speak Portuguese and is assisted by the interpreter Natalia de Almeida." Same person used in Portugal. who translated them back to English?
Kate "TRANSLATIONS BY ANNA ESSE /ALBYM"
Gerry "TRANSLATION BY INES/ALBYM"
So the difference in the wording could be just the final translation?
Gerry's 10th May statement was taken by "the interpreter Alice Dias Homem de Gouveia Avakoff"
With Kate's arguido statement we are not clearly told who the interpreter: "an interpreter is present taken from a list provided by the Consulate, ADSR."
Kate "Regarding this night she says that none of the children cried, she would have noticed as she was in the room. Regarding the fact that Madeleine on the next morning, Thursday, during breakfast said to both of them that she had been crying and that nobody had come to her room, she presumes that this crying must have been before she and Gerry returned to the apartment. When she asked Madeleine about this however, the child gave no importance to the matter. On this night they also checked on the children every half hour; however she thinks that 45 minutes had gone by from the time of the last check to when they arrived, as exceptionally they went to the Tapas bar. On this day she thinks that Gerry arrived at the apartment around 23:50 and she arrived 5 minutes afterwards. She went to sleep in Madeleine's room 15/20 minutes afterwards. Before this she spent a few minutes in her bed next to Gerry's."
THIS WAS CONTRASTED WITH WHAT kATE HAD ORIGINALLY SAID "The interviewee and her husband sleep in one bedroom and the three children in the other. The twins sleep in cots, Madeleine in a normal bed, the other bed staying empty." There were some variations on that basic plan.
