Did you see Russell Leave the table? At what time? How long was he away? What did he say when he returned?
How well did the other Tapas 7 answer these questions?
Matt Oldfield
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MATTHEW-OLDFIELD-ROGATORY.htm:
He know Jane did the first check: "I think the kids hadn't settle particularly well and that's why they, erm, Russell and Jane had come separately in the evening, and so she went back, erm, to check on,
presumably to check on, to check on her kids and then came back and we, erm, had starters by then'."
Why does he introduce doubt there with the word "presumably"?
Matt makes it pretty clear Russell goes with him. ", so it may well have been sort of closer to sort of twenty past, twenty-five past nine, sometime round there before we did the next check'.
00.23.05 4078 'Okay'.
Reply 'Erm, so I went to check on Grace and I stood up and Russell stood up and said he was going to go and check as well and Kate stood up and I said, you know, do you want us to go and check on, erm, do you want me to go and check on your kids, erm, and she said yes. And I think I offered at that point just because we had been together all week and we had similar routines and it just kind of seemed like a nice thing to do that would save her a journey back up and, you know, it may or it may not have been different. But, erm, I said that and she said yeah fine and she said that the patio door was open and go in through there. And there was me and Russell as well, so, erm, you know, it seemed, at the time, a very reasonable thing to do, even though it was the first time that we'd certainly done it. Also, having somebody else there with me, it sort of felt sort of more, more sort of natural and normal. So we went out and we debated about whether we'd go in first or go in later, but Russell wanted to get back because Evie had been a little bit unsettled and so we went back first and he went in and I went in to check on Grace and actually went in through the door, unlocked the door, looked in, into her room, all fine, came back out, shut the door, erm, went over to his apartment and he said that Evie had been sick so he was staying back with her. So I went back and did the check on five 'A', on Madeleine and the kids, erm, and went back through the patio entrance, so through the gate, through the patio doors, erm, there was, it was light enough to see through the apartment and there sort of a little table light on the right at the end of the sofa and when you walk into the room, you could see straight into it, because the door was open."
How Kate would not be aware that the person doing her check was not accompanied by Russell to me is unbelievable.
Now focusing on Russell's return as per the Rogatory questions "Did you see Russell Leave the table? At what time? How long was he away? What did he say when he returned?" We've covered when he left - i.e. the same time as Matt did.
"How long was he away?":"Reply 'Erm, well everybody, apart from Russell and I were back, so I arrived back before Russell, erm, I think I said, all quiet, or something to, erm, to, you know, Kate and Gerry and just sort of sat back down and we carried on and I told Jane that Evie had been sick and so later on when his food came, we said, he's going to be late, can we sort of send it back or you just keep it warm and he'll have it later on, erm, we had a conversation as normal, I just remember launching into this Jane relieving Russell'.
4078 'We touched on that yesterday'.
Reply 'It probably came up but seemed inappropriate to mention. But, erm, she went off to relieve Russell, as it were, to sort of take over, erm, sort of duties and make sure that Evie was alright and then Russell came back and they actually redid his food, erm, I mean, he was eating it when the next sort of checks went, which were about half an hour later.'"
Jane leaves before Russell comes back. Has Matt mentioned when did Russell return? IMO not really.
Did he answer "How long was he away"? Nothing about a period of time there.
Does Matt answer the next question:
"What did he say when he returned?"
He talks of chatting here "Gerry said or Kate said, it's about thirty minutes since the last check, we ought to go, so that's why I think it's thirty minutes, erm, because I think that main course would have taken a bit longer because, you know, Russell came back and we started chatting, you know, how's Evie and all that sort of thing, erm, so, I think he was still eating at the time,
so we waited until he'd finished before we went'."
so we waited until he'd finished before we went must be referring to a time prior to going together at around 9:30. So was the conversation prior to at as well?
In other words what he is saying is not chronological and really doesn't make sense.
So in conclusion Matt nearly answers one question only but then introduces a delay "
so we waited until he'd finished before we went" into the time Russell left.
