48 Questions

[anotheoldgit]

Would it have been better for Kate McCann to have answered these 48 questions, if not all, which ones would you have liked to hear the answers to?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-104163 5/The-48-questions-Kate-McCann-wouldnt-answer- -did.html

[Gromit]

Only read the first few, but they looked like 48 stupid questions, which may explain why the investigation got nowhere.

[RevFunk]

I think just one would have been appropriate:

"Why as a supposedly educated adult did you find it necessary to leave 3 small children unattended whilst you and your husband went out on the lash"

[JK04]

Even if they were stupid questions, she probably still should have answer them. It looks bad that she didnt.
If you have nothin to hide then you should be able to answer every one of them.

[andrea81]

Hmmmm?

It says that she had legal representation, perhaps she was told to give no answers?

I can't imagine why though, some could have been a help to find Maddie???

Who knows, but just reading those sends a chill down my spine. Glad it wasn't me answering them on my precious two!

[Quinlad]

Gina! Quick!

[Ethel]

On the BBC new today, there was a report that the girl was seen being carried on the night of her disappearance by her father.

The eye witness evidence was discounted by Portuguese police because he was at the bar with his friends at the time.

This has come to light as the evidence has been released.

I don't suppose we will ever know what happened.

[Gromit]

She should have answered the question:

Did you call Sky News?

That could have elicited the crucial evidence to solve the case.

[monkeyeyes]

I thought that she had given all of the information that she could have in the early stage or the abduction............these questions were posed after she and her husband had been made 'official suspects' and when it appeared that the Keystone cops had only one line of enquiry...........

[daisycup]

I know its all a sad story but I'm so sick of seeing their poor depressive faces in the papers. She always has the same ruddy look.

[youngmafbog]

Absolutley not. Tell the old bill nothing or they will twist it and stitch you up.

Particularly in Browns Britain.

[M-A-T-R-I-X]

I think I could answer some of those question on her behalf

7 - because I was irresponsible

11 - because I wanted to finish off my Pinot Grigio

27 - unacceptable and irresponsible

35 - none, but I have a PHD in being an unfit mother

[karmgirl]

I think she should have answered them and that she probably has jeopardised the investigation by not doing so. Why didn't she answer them. Something to hide?

[horselady]

I wonder if she will ever be found? Will it be like that little boy who vanished, I think his name was Ben.

[saxy_jag]

In answer to Gromit's post, I think they were 48 perfectly reasonable questions, given that the first suspects in any child abduction case are usually the parents or immediate carers.

I do not think that the child's parents murdered her, neither do I believe they know where she is. What I do think is that, apart from leaving the kids unattended, they were up to something with their 'friends' that night that they'd rather wasn't public knowledge, and that all those 'friends' have very carefully worked out stories together to make one verifiable one.

I don't think this cover up was the direct cause of the child's disappearance, but I do think it's jeopardised the investigation. Sooner or later, someone's going to slip up, though, and the press will have another field day.

[cazzz1975]

I would have answered all of the questions if I had nothing to hide, especially as it may help the investigation.

it is routine for witnesses and family to be interviewed by police in order for the police to build up a picture of the night in question.

maybe kate just had a guilty concience?

[cassa333]

I think these questions would have been reasonable at the start of the investigation. However true to incompetant form the Portugees police failed to do it right.

The police over there are (well) known to 'extract' confessions from people and had done so in a similar case. Those questions would not of helped in the investigation as it was too late. It is easy to say they should have answered them but when you become so frustrated at someones ability to do their job it is understandable that eventually you give them nothing.

Remember they had lost their daughter, seen the police fail utterly in thier duty, were being lied to and about and were then being treated very badly. I wonder why they didn't think to help....