Betreffende Payne (ik zie dat Babootje ondertussen ook heeft gepost, dus misschien staat er iets dubbel nu)
Hij is zelf blijkbaar nooit van tafel gegaan (ze hadden een soort babyfoon systeem over de mobiel)
Zijn vrouw ook niet. Ze voelden zich goed met de monitor.
Fiona Citaat:
'No, Dave and I and my mother never checked anybody'.
Citaat:
Erm, I guess some people were doing more checking and it tended to be the men doing, again, this is a feeling, it seemed to be they did a lot more sort of upping and downing, erm, tut, you know, than, than the women perhaps. Erm, I mean, Gerry and Russell'.
Gerry en Russel gingen dus vaker van tafel.
Blijkbaar was er nog een stel met een monitor, maar die was niet zo goed
Citaat:
'Russ and Jane brought their monitor and they had it with, I was aware Jane had her monitor with her, but I don't think it was a digital one and it wasn't very reliable, which his why they didn't rely on it. They had it with them, erm, but Jane had to sort of lift it up above the level of the hedge to actually get a signal. Erm, so they had it with them and I don't know how much they really used it, but they, they were still doing what everyone else was dong and going back and checking'.
David:
Citaat:
1485 "Did you actually offer to check any of the children' I know you say that you didn't have to check yours.'
Reply "Yeah, no I never, I never did offer to check. Err there, as much as I you know, know, knew all the children well I err I probably wouldn't have felt, you know, bizarrely I wouldn't have felt quite comfortable checking them, more, you know if I, if it was at home and perhaps one of the children wasn't settling you know I'd go upstairs and go well you know could you be quiet but there I didn't feel quite comfortable doing that, it just, you know if the child was crying or upset and not sleeping I think the first person you know at that stage probably''
Inderdaad een veel langer antwoord dan strikt noodzakelijk.
Grote vraag blijft dus: Wat is er werkelijk gebeurd? Had Payne interesse in de kinderen (hoewel hij zelf ook twee meisjes had) of in Kate misschien?
En waarom is de reden onduidelijk dat hij "van Gerry" moest gaan kijken bij Kate?
Volgens Fiona ging hij zelfs "uit zichzelf"
Dit is van Fiona terug in Engeland
Citaat:
'Erm, yeah, I mean, Gerry, phew, I don't know who was playing who, but there was certainly Gerry, Matt, erm, you know, Russ and Dave, erm, and typically being men, it was all quite competitive and, erm, and far different to the women's tennis. Erm, Kate and the kids, I think, as I said earlier, weren't there and, you know, they, as Gerry said, were just absolutely knackered and Kate was getting them bathed and ready for bed. Erm, and, yeah, the others, sort of me, Rachael and Jane, with the kids, our kids, were just sort of watching them playing for a bit, we didn't stay that long that night'.
1485
'Yeah. When did Gerry tell you that the kids were knackered and Kate was bathing them''
Reply
'I think that was something I learnt later or whether he told me at the time, I know they weren't there and it didn't really, it wasn't really that surprising, as I say, we were a bit later getting there that night, whereas, on previous nights, when we'd had a playtime, it was immediately after the kids high tea'.
'So, you know, it wasn't a surprise that they weren't there. Erm, and I know Dave had said to me later, because he, erm, after tennis he'd said he'd checked on Kate and the kids before going to tennis'.
'Dave, yeah. So he'd mentioned that later, so I don't know at what point I knew that, but'.
1485
'Was that off his own back or was he told''
Reply
'No, he said, what did he check off his own back''
'Right. So what time did he come back then from his tennis''
Reply
'I'd say, if we came back about seven, he was about ten minutes after that, so about ten past seven, quarter past seven, something like that'.
Dave bleef meestal alleen met zijn kinderen terwijl Fiona en haar moeder al naar de Tapas bar gingen. Dit geven ze beiden aan. De kinderen vielen volgens hen niet makkelijk meteen in slaap en dus bleef hij bij ze tot ze sliepen. Ze waren altijd laat aan tafel in vergelijking met de anderen.
Maar anders dan die avond kan ik niet echt vinden dat hij tijd had om bij andere kinderen te zijn.
Ik denk wel dat de tijd die hij volgens hem wel en volgens Kate niet met de kinderen bij Kate heeft doorgebracht van onschatbaar belang is. Dat daar het antwoord ligt.