Re: Permission given to interview suspects

by endgame 06.06.14 17:46

Hopespringseternal wrote:Perhaps the PJ are utterly cheesed off with it all and figure they might as well let SY interview these folk as they are sure they have no involvement. At least that way SY and the papers cannot say their not solving the case was down to obstruction by the PJ.

Yes. If you read the extended version of today's Correio da Manha story which is now on the Joanna Morais website, this seems ever more likely. Once again there is nothing to suggest that SY are doing anything other than what they [and/ or the media] say they are doing - looking for evidence of a burglary gone wrong, looking for Portuguese suspects. Nor is there anything to suggest that the Portuguese themselves are still actively pursuing any lines of enquiry.

by CynicAl 06.06.14 18:30

I can just imagine the interview...

Redwood: "You're one of three known drug traffickers..."
Pedro:" You've read my file. Congratulations. "
Redwood:" We're investigating the calls you made to your dealer chums... What did you talk about? "
Pedro:" Dealing. Not your jurisdiction though, issit? "
Redwood:" No, but we also want to know why you were out on the overgrown hill over there at 10pm that night. "
Pedro:" Dogging. Why, you looking for some action? "

I can't see the PJ letting Redwood turn the bulldog on these guys. Its gonna be a short conversation. Cons usually know their rights better than the cops.

by Guest 06.06.14 18:45

CynicAl wrote:I can just imagine the interview...

Redwood: "You're one of three known drug traffickers..."
Pedro:" You've read my file. Congratulations. "
Redwood:" We're investigating the calls you made to your dealer chums... What did you talk about? "
Pedro:" Dealing. Not your jurisdiction though, issit? "
Redwood:" No, but we also want to know why you were out on the overgrown hill over there at 10pm that night. "
Pedro:" Dogging. Why, you looking for some action? "

I can't see the PJ letting Redwood turn the bulldog on these guys. Its gonna be a short conversation. Cons usually know their rights better than the cops.

My hope is that they would be interviewing these people as witnesses. If they were doing something nefarious might it be that they aren't at all keen to come forward and admit they were about the area doing some dealing (and don't want to get involved with the police) so kept schtum ?
Or am I being too niave ?

by ChippyM 06.06.14 18:52

Isn't this just like all the '3 burglars', 'arrests imminent' stories we had at the start of the year? If these people were known to police surely they would have arrested/interviewed them already, not done a random search hoping to lead to evidence to arrest them and announced it to the press before it happened.