Felix.

Kate McCann refused to answer 48 questions put to her by Portuguese detectives after she was made a suspect in Madeleine's disappearance, police files have revealed.

She used her right as an "arguido", or formal suspect, to remain silent during an interview on September 7.

Officers quizzed her about everything from her medical specialism and Madeleine's behaviour to whether she had any responsibility for her daughter's disappearance.

Detectives started by asking Mrs McCann about her movements immediately after she discovered that her daughter was missing at about 10pm on May 3 last year, a document in the massive police dossier that has just been released shows.

Here are a list of questions she refused to answer and the one she did.

1. At around 10pm on May 3 when you entered the apartment what did you see? What did you do? Where did you look? What did you touch?

2. Did you search inside the bedroom wardrobe? (She replied she wouldn't answer).

3. (After being shown two photographs of her bedroom wardrobe) Can you describe its contents?

4. Why had the curtain behind the sofa in front of the side window (which was shown on a photo) been tampered with? Did someone go behind the sofa?

5. How long did your search of the apartment take after you detected Madeleine's disappearance?

6. Why did you say from the start that Madeleine has been abducted?

7. Assuming Madeleine had been abducted, why did you leave the twins alone to go to the "Tapas" and raise the alarm? The supposed abductor could have been in the apartment.

8. Why didn't you ask the twins at the time what had happened to their sister or why did you not ask later?

9. When you raised the alarm at the "Tapas" what exactly did you say?

10. What happened after you raised the alarm?

11. Why did you go and warn your friends instead of shouting from the apartment's veranda?

12. Who contacted the authorities?

13. Who took part in the searches?

14. Did anyone outside the group learn of Madeleine's disappearance in the following minutes?

15. Did any neighbour offer help after the disappearance?

16. What does "we let her down" mean?

17. Did Jane tell you that night that she had seen a man with a child?

18. How were the authorities contacted and which police force was alerted?

19. During the searches with the police already there, where did you search for Madeleine, how and in what way?

20. Why did the twins not wake up during the search or when they were taken upstairs?

21. Who did you phone after the occurence?

22. Did you phone Sky News?

23.Did you know the danger of calling the media, because it could influence the abductor?

24. Did you ask for a priest?

25. By what means did you describe Madeleine's features, by photographs or other means?

26. Is it true that during the searches you remained seated on Madeleine's bed without moving?

27. What was your behaviour that night?

28. Did you manage to sleep?

29. Before traveling to Portugal did you make any comment about a forboding or bad feeling?

30. What was Madeleine's behaviour like?

31. Did Maddeleine suffer from any illness or take any medication?

32. What was Madeleine's relationship like with her brother and sister?

33. What was Madeleine's relationship like with her brother and sister, friends and her school mates?

34. In terms of your professional life, in how many and in which hospitals have you worked?

35. What is your medical speciality?

36. Have you ever done any shift work in any emergency services or other services?

37. Did you work every day?

38. At a certain point you stopped working. Why was this?

39. Are the twins difficult to get to sleep? Are they restless? Does this cause you uneasiness?

40. Is it true that sometimes you despaired with your children's behaviour and that left you feeling very uneasy?

41. Is it true that in England you had considered handing over Madeleine's custody to a relative?

42. In England, did you medicate your children? What type of medication?

43. In the case files you were shown canine forensic testing films, where you can see them marking due to detection of the scent of human corpse and blood traces - also human - as well as all the comments of the technician in chargem of them. After watching and after the marking of the scent of corpse in your bedroom beside the wardrobe and behind the sofa, pushed up against the sofa wall, did you say you couldn't explain any more than you already had?

44. When the sniffer dog also marked human blood behind the sofa, did you say you couldn't explain any more than you already had?

45. When the sniffer dog marked the corpse coming from the vehicle you hired a month after the disappearance, did you say you couldn't explain anymore than you already had?

46. When human blood was marked in the boot of the vehicle did you say you couldn't explain anymore than you already had?

47. When confronted with the results of Madeleine's DNA, whose analysis was carried out in a British laboratory, collected from behind the sofa and the boot of the vehicle, did you say you couldn't explain more than you already had?

48. Did you have any responsibility or intervention in your daughter's disappearance?

A Question answered:

Are you aware that in not answering the questions you are jeopardising the investigation, which seeks to discover what happened to your daughter?

KM: "Yes, if that's what the investigation thinks."

Felix.

Reading the questions, they are too specific for the police to be just asking her routine type questions - most of them seem as if they know what the answer would be having carried out their enquiries.

To me a lot of them seem pretty daming evidnece that something is not right. Hence why she went 'no reply'

EddScott

I imagine she was being interviewed in a particularly hostile manner and any answer given would probably have been thrown back at her.

Hardly proof they killed her.

dpb

But it seems highly suspect now as to why she became an arguido to start with , so ....

ScoobyWon't

Felix.

Not proof of course - but something just doesn't sit right.

like question 10

The obvious answer would be "We contuined to search the whole place for her and ask everyone for help". But to me its obvious that hasn't happened or they wouldn't ask that question. Its likely that the police have a statement off someone who states that they did something completely different.

How about the sniffer dog - that seems to pick up the scent of a corpse wherever the McCanns seem to have been...... She can only say 'no reply' to that. Or is she going to say "Well it must be the previous occupants and the previous owners of the car"

EddScott

They quite possibly are but I would not be surprised if they had been instructed not to say anything to the Portuguese police. The police could have been looking for a quick fix and any ill-informed reply to any of those questions would probably have them behind bars by now.

My biggest problem with it being them is where is the body. How did they manage to dispose of the body with the other kids in tow on an island they didn't know.

IMO she was taken by some perverts to a boat, abused and then thrown overboard at sea. Whoever it was deserve to be hanged.

jasey

I would imagine she was told to not answer by her legal team.

And they would be the best in the business - they cost enough !!

Would be very interesting to see the slit of the fund.

Start = 2 million
- 1 million lawyers
-.9 million - Globe trotting to meet the stars / pope / politicians
-.09 million - getting pals back out to stay in Portugal for "support"
-.01 Million - Couple of posters on the beaches around praya looking for Maddie

David Lock

Does the McCann's silence speak volumes...?

Yeah - that they didn't trust the police - and/or were under instructions to keep schtum.

Poor buggers. Completely innocent aside from the lack of sense when leaving the flat to go and get p1ssed with their friends. IMO. dl

Felix.

How about question 43 - the corpse smell that seems to follow them around

cster

The biggy for me is why two doctors left such young children alone to go off with their mates for whatever reason.
I just don't get it.
You would think at least one of them would have had a bit of common sense.

MrRA

Here we go. Trial by BBS .

Those questions are by far some of the most stupid I have ever read. Innocent until proven guilty I believe.

It's easy for any of us to pass comment on how they behaved. Talk is cheap. How do we really know how any of us would act if faced with the same situation? Yes they were neglectful in their role as parents by leaving their children alone and they are now paying for it in the most painful way possibly, but until I see some damning, conclusive evidence they were involved with her disappearance they remain innocent in my eyes.

Felix.

Which questions are stupid.

Plus I think most people would act the same.........frantically searching for their child instaed of covering their tracks

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Agreed. You can't judge em on what questions may or may not been answered. She might of had very valid reasons for not replying at that time. However, there is something not quite right about those two in their mannerisms (sp) and just generally when they have been interviewed on tv. Who knows... my personal opinion is there was a tragic accident, which they've tried to (successfully?) cover up.

hoskib

iTrader: (1)

well i learnt something from this thread. i thought she'd declined to answer 48 of many questions, not refuse to answer any questions (all 48 of them). even the papers that love them are putting a bit of a spin on it!

does wind me up when the press always bang on about the 'abducted' madeline, there's as little proof she was abducted as there is to her just wandering off and falling down a pit. call her missing, because that's all we're sure of.

billythekid

Whats being said of the guys interview? Did he go no comment too?

jasey

Her answer to the last one would have had me searching for the keys to the cell so I could put her in it and throw them away.

lozgti

I'm sorry but who on this earth would try and cover up the death of their child for fear of being told off for having a bit of food and a beer with your friends virtually next to where your kids are asleep?

As a parent I couldn't ever on this earth ever imagine a parent trying to 'cover up' a death of a child

I feel incredibly sorry for everything that these two have had to go through and are still going through.Even now on Scoobynet

renno rannes

I think the questions are 100% legitimate and relevent. An Innocent person in her position shouldent refuse to answer ANY questions if there is even a slight chance it might help the Police find out what happend to her daughter. What kind of person doesn't corporate with the police when there child goes missing I know, a guilty one. I was shocked no charges where brought for leaving the kids home alone.

scooby L

Because they are both practising doctors (of sorts) so a terrible accident happens (they drugged her to make her sleep while they go out... she chokes on her tongue, vomit or something and is dead when they get back...they think..hmmm.. accidentally killing our our daughter with a sedative?... accident yes... will we have a profession/career after this comes out? no chance....they'd be struck off... so they do a cover up.... very strong motive in my books...

Sorry..I'd like to think they are victims of a kidnapping... but they (perticularly him) just haven't acted like a couple who's daughter has been nabbed in the night... they've acted like a couple who's daughter is dead from day one, somber and controlled...not histerical and pleeding..

Another point: Good reason to not answer questions... so she didn't get caught out.... they would have been asking the husband the same questions at the same time... it's been ages since a "story" agreed by them had been formed... the Police knew what they were doing...if these two were hiding something, they'd let it slip under intense questioning after such a long time... and by refusing to answer they've left the police high and dry.... calculating and intelligent....

EddScott

Thats fine but how do you successfully hide a body in a completely unknown environment?

Can't just lob her in the sea, what if she floats back?

PeteBrant

The McCanns are innocent until proven guilty.

People will speculate of course - But there are plenty of reasons why someone would exercise thier right to silence. Not least of which is when your legal team have told you to do so.

The Robert Murat case has evidently been forgotten already.

scooby L

She's not in the sea...... to easy to be spotted taking a boat out that time of night.... she was taken out of town and buried.. there is still the car boot blood (with sedatives in?)

scooby L

Yes they are

And they've made it water tight now

Even when you know it will hinder finding your daughter? Unless you know she's already dead of course..

I'm not talking about him... I'm talking about the McCan's There's something not right..they're hiding something

PeteBrant

The British lab that analysed the blood found in the car found that it could not be identified as belonging to anyone in particular. Given that it was a hire car ; it could have belonged to anyone.

I have no idea where you are getting the sedatives angle from.

PeteBrant

What you are doing is exactly what happend to Robert Murat; Guilt because someone felt "there's something not right about him"". Murat got so fed up with it he took the media to court and handed thier ***** to them on a plate.

Thankfully, "having a bad feeling about someone" is not seen as enough evidence to convict.

scooby L

This is the trouble...chinese whispers etc... I heard there was blood in the boot with traces of sedative... I withdraw that statement

scooby L

Fair point... but he was/still is a copybook future offender... "I could not have murdered Jill...I was stalking someone else"

I hope the next girl he fantasizes about doesn't end up molested or dead ..and we all say.. well done us....maybe he did it after all...

PeteBrant

Indeed It doesnt take much to go from "unidentified blood" to "definitely Maddys with sedatives and almost definitely cat spunk in it"