A reasonable concept.
But is the process really as dragged out as all that considering that there are five separate trials underway; that days have been expended when questioning took place on unrelated incidents designed to shake the reliability of witnesses, but also to attempt access to the MM files;
- May 2, 2024: Mark Draycott is a Scotland Yard investigator working on the Maddie case. On the twelfth day of the trial, his testimony was heard. He contradicts a statement by key witness Helge B. In addition, it becomes known on this day that the Göttingen Regional Court has rejected the application for a retrial against Christian B. from 2019 as inadmissible.
- March 14, 2024: On the fourth day of the trial, ... Later, the defense filed a motion to be granted access to all investigation files against Christian B. – including the Madeleine McCann case. It is already clear that the trial will probably not end in June, but will take longer.
and there has been at least one delay due to illness.
- May 22, 2024: On day 17, the head of the BKA's operational case analysis was supposed to testify. The Federal Criminal Police Office has compared the rape of Hazel B. with the rape of the 72-year-old American woman, for which Christian B. was convicted. But: The chief profiler is missing for reasons of illness. Christian B.'s lawyers file a motion for rejection – due to bias.
- June 28, 2024: At the end of June, some trial dates are cancelled due to the illness of a person involved in the judiciary.
The exposure incident in the Messines playground is interesting from the point of view of the gap between the then child witnesses being interviewed.
Difficult to determine only from the headline ... but was there any suspicion that an issue of perjury might have been suggested?
- April 12, 2024: On the eighth day of the trial, an alleged victim has his say for the first time: the then eleven-year-old in front of whom Christian B. is said to have masturbated. The now 18-year-old and the father are switched from Portugal to the Braunschweig district court.
- April 26, 2024: On the eleventh day of the trial, another witness from Portugal is heard. The man had held the defendant on a playground in 2017 until he was arrested by the police. According to his descriptions, Christian B. first tried to move away and then claimed that he had only urinated.
- August 5, 2024: The trial continues after a summer break. BKA chief profiler Harald Dern testifies. He talks about the similarities and differences between the rape of the 72-year-old American woman, for which B. was convicted, and the act against Hazel B. In addition, the court is again concerned with the latest alleged sexual abuse in Portugal: A former playmate of the victim and her father will be connected to Braunschweig.
What a strange headline!
Is it merely a poor translation? Or is it yet another try by CB's defence to employ the witness contradiction (and worse) ploy which has been in use to taint testimony since the start of the trial.
Christian B: Have parents talked their children into abusive work?
Braunschweig. In 2016, the Maddie suspect went into hiding in Portugal. He was arrested in 2017. He is said to have masturbated in front of children.
Or was everything completely different?
2016 tauchte der Maddie-Verdächtige in Portugal unter. 2017 wurde er verhaftet. Er soll vor Kindern masturbiert haben. Oder war alles doch ganz anders?
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