Was Kate McCann right to decline to answer the 48 questions?

[Mr Gray]

If Kate's responses didn't match with Gerry's the PJ would have known that they were onto them.  A very good reason for keeping shtum.

You actually make a very good case for silence....if through mistake or lapse in memory an innocent party could have given the PJ grounds for arrest...it really is that simple

[Robittybob1]

If Kate's responses didn't match with Gerry's the PJ would have known that they were onto them.  A very good reason for keeping shtum.

If Kate and Gerry gave different answers who would the PJ believe?  If we think they were going to believe Gerry have we not become prejudicial like the PJ did, when suggesting Kate could take the rap and Gerry keep on working.

[Robittybob1]

If they were in collusion, why wouldn't they have matched?

Kate would have no idea as to what Gerry had said.

[Carana]

Kate would have no idea as to what Gerry had said.

They'd had months to work out a story, if they'd wanted to.

[G-Unit]

Definition of good-sister in US English:
 
NOUN
good-sister
Scottish
A sister-in-law.

Origin
Early 16th century. From good + sister.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/good-sister

Was there any particular reason for using archaic language?

[Miss Taken Identity]

They'd had months to work out a story, if they'd wanted to.

If they were in collusion, why wouldn't they have matched?

They would not have matched as they had already given two different statements about a few things noted and mentioned in other threads. if they tried to stick to one version they other would be seen as lying or both not believed.

Kate had a legal right to abstain from answering those questions,however, in my opinion she should have wavered that right as any other loving, grieving mother would do anything to get help to find their daughter.

Think about Leslie Ann Downies poor mother- would  she refuse to have done anything to get her daughters killers brought to justice?

[sadie]

Was there any particular reason for using archaic language?

I rather like it.

The use of unusual quaint words adds colour to a forum that at times can be drab. IMO

[Erngath]

The McCanns were afforded due process right up to the arguido interviews but Kate McCann chose not to cooperate. A sad way to behave by any innocent mother whose priority should have been the return of her missing daughter.

Now can we rediscover the thread topic please.

And you really do believe that Kate's priority was not the return of her missing daughter?
Do you ?

[Mr Gray]

The McCanns were afforded due process right up to the arguido interviews but Kate McCann chose not to cooperate. A sad way to behave by any innocent mother whose priority should have been the return of her missing daughter.

Now can we rediscover the thread topic please.

Kate was absolutely correct to do what she did in the circumstances imo

[John]

And you really do believe that Kate's priority was not the return of her missing daughter?
Do you ?

Why else would a suspect refuse to answer the most innocuous questions?

[John]

Kate was absolutely correct to do what she did in the circumstances imo

I totally disagree. In the situation she found herself she should have followed Gerry's example and answered every question to the best of her ability. Failing to do so only intensified the police interest in her imho as police will always consider a suspect's refusal to answer questions as suspicious and a failure to cooperate.

In this particular situation the police were tasked with finding a missing child. The parents and a colleague were the last known persons to have seen the child alive so it was not unreasonable in the circumstances to have expected their full cooperation.

[Mr Gray]

I totally disagree. In the situation she found herself she should have followed Gerry's example and answered every question to the best of her ability. Failing to do so only intensified the police interest in her imho.

That was only because the police misunderstood the forensic evidence... Thinking it pointed towards the McCann's... Which it didn't... That was a masive and unforgivable mistake by the PJ... Imo

[John]

That was only because the police misunderstood the forensic evidence... Thinking it pointed towards the McCann's... Which it didn't... That was a masive and unforgivable mistake by the PJ... Imo

Actually no. The forensic evidence suggested among other things, the possibility of a simulated abduction, as no evidence was found supporting an alleged break-in by any intruder.  In refusing to cooperate fully with the police, the parents were the architect of their own undoing.

[Mr Gray]

Actually no. The forensic evidence suggested among other things, the possibility of a simulated abduction, as no evidence was found supporting an alleged break-in by any intruder.  In refusing to cooperate fully with the police, the parents were the architect of their own undoing.

The forensic evidence supported nothing... Amaral is on record as believing the dogs and the FSS report supported death in the apartment... They didn't... He was wrong..

[Robittybob1]

The forensic evidence supported nothing... Amaral is on record as believing the dogs and the FSS report supported death in the apartment... They didn't... He was wrong..

I think John is referring to the initial crime scene evidence.