This is a public forum and therefore I will reply to any post I chose.
As to your point even Kate admits that breaking judicial secrecy was a secondary consideration to keeping the public in the dark.
'We didn’t feel good about this at all, but even if the judicial secrecy law had not prevented us from giving the main reason, can you imagine what would have happened if we’d announced to the journalists heading for Huelva that the police were coming to do some forensic work in our villa? We were not to know our excuse would prove to be no more than a temporary holding measure. If we had, we wouldn’t have bothered trying to keep the scurrilous headlines at bay.'
So you think Kate and Gerry should have willingly assisted the press to carry on with the vicious smear campaign against them - by handing them ammunition on a plate. Really?
They were well aware of how the press had behaved - and did not want to aid and abet them in producing even more 'scurrilous' headlines - and then added to that there was the risk of being accused of breaking the secrecy laws.
So they exaggerated Gerry's tummy upset and pulled a sickie rather than throw themselves to the wolves (the press) and also leave themselves open to accusations of breaking the law. Perfectly understandable IMO.
Anyone knowing the reasons for that white lie are really scraping the bottom of the barrel if they then try to use it as proof that the McCanns are massive liars. Nitpicking on a major scale IMO.
It seems that the only people who 'suffered' from that lie were the press who had to wait a bit longer before they printed 'scurrilous' headlines. Poor dears.
IMO
