More time's been given to question the other 5 now. I can understand the house owners who found the remains being arrested and questioned but it does seem odd they need further time if they simply just found Becky's body.
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Don't think anything about this will turn out to be simple.More time's been given to question the other 5 now. I can understand the house owners who found the remains being arrested and questioned but it does seem odd they need further time if they simply just found Becky's body.
Precisely they have to show a high level of probable cause to get the extension signed offMore time's been given to question the other 5 now. I can understand the house owners who found the remains being arrested and questioned but it does seem odd they need further time if they simply just found Becky's body.
Yup they also need to prove that more interview time is likely to lead somewhere.Precisely they have to show a high level of probable cause to get the extension signed off
If we add up all the custody time (approx) of all the suspects so far 2 x 92 + 5 x 44 = 404 hours.
With sleep, rest and meal breaks, plus time to talk privately with solicitors less than half of that will be useful interview time.
But still that's over 150 hours of interview time with no charges.
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Did you know that the number of people falling out of fishing boats virtually perfectly correlates with the divorce rate in Maine. There is no connection yet statistically there appears to be one.
There has been no mention of abuse and with scant knowledge it is hard to say which side of the relationship is controlling.
Is it possible they actually haven't found all of Becky yet and are using the questioning time to locate her?
Horrible.
I understand what you are saying but my point was that the media have not "named the suspects under arrest" as such. They have named people believed to live in certain properties and allowed the public to draw their own conclusions. It's a difficult call as in some cases, allowing the suspects name to be known can help a case. In the April Jones case, IIRC it was the police themselves who named the suspect prior to charging. A large part of the problem is that many of the public do not seem to draw a distinction between being arrested and being charged let alone being convicted. Not sure how that gets solved.
That will certainly have been a turning point.I'm thinking two distinct phases to the questioning - before and after the discovery at Barton Court. The discovery on Monday left them with a good chunk of time left over to question in light of what they found there.
Yes you are correct.I apologise in advance for my ignorance with legal timescales, am I right in thinking the first two suspects will have to be formally charged or released this afternoon? No more time for questioning can be granted or is this incorrect?
They don't have to know the nitty gritty details like when where or why, just enough evidence for the police to take to the cps showing that they more than likely killed her (in layman's terms). You're right though it is going to the wire. Maybe they don't have enough evidence to charge both persons as yet
Yes but they were originally arrested for suspicion of kidnapping on Saturday. They simply upgraded it to suspicion of murder on Monday.Weren't they arrested for murder on Monday? The clock would start then.
Once they are granted the extension they can do what they like with it. They can use all of it or a small portion of it.So if they have sufficient evidence to bring a charge, would they still continue questioning the suspects, if the suspects are mainly giving No Comment answers.
What I am trying to say is, would they ( or are the allowed to ) make use of the maximum 96 hours in the hope of getting a few answers in amongst the No Comments, or would they be forced to go ahead and charge because they already have enough evidence ?