The run up to Kate's arguida interview was as follows ...
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And how exactly are you supposed to prepare for being interrogated in a foreign language about the abduction of your child?
All I could do was to tell the police the truth – again – and hope that was what they were actually interested in
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I was due at the police station in Portimão at 2pm.
I finally went in for my interview at 2.55pm.
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At one point early on, something was read out from my initial statement, given on 4 May. It wasn’t quite accurate and I explained to the officer that the original meaning seemed to have been lost slightly in translation. To my astonishment, the interpreter became quite angry and suddenly interrupted, ‘What are you saying? That we interpreters can’t do our job? The interpreter will only have translated what you told her!’
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At 5pm, we had a fifteen-minute break, which I spent standing in the corridor outside the interrogation room.
We stopped again at 7.50pm, supposedly for five minutes. I was getting tired by now and hoping it
would all be finished fairly soon. No such luck. Those five minutes stretched into two and a quarter hours.
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I heard later that he’d (Gerry) twice come back to Portimão in the hope of collecting Trisha and me. At midnight he was sent home.
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It was 12.40am by the time the interview – and the attendant rigmarole of having it translated into Portuguese and then read back to me in English by the interpreter – was over. I was told I would have to return at ten o’clock in the morning.
I left the station with Trish, Carlos and Sofia a little after 1am.
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It must have been close to 4am when Carlos and Sofia left, saying they would see me at the police station later that morning.
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It was almost 5am when we finally got to bed.
madeleine ... Kate McCann
