Interrogations-and-Confessions-Handbook

104 A Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions
1st Officer ‘Howay you have told us there was blood all over the place what
else did you do. George, we know what’s happened, we know what’s
happened, so you know you are not holding anything back by not
telling us, George what else did you do?’
1st Officer ‘George howay son, just finish it off and tell us what else you did.’
1st Officer ‘George.’
Heron ‘Went to throttle her.’
Officer ‘You went to throttle her, what with?’
Heron ‘Me hands.’
Officer ‘But you hit her with something else didn’t you George?’
Heron ‘Don’t remember’ (actually typed as ‘probably I can’t remember’)
Officer ‘George, think, I know its not very nice son, but just think what
else did you hit her with. Eh George?’
Heron ‘Fist.’
Officer ‘What else? Howay George, you used something else didn’t you?
George, we know, howay, George what else did you do? Come on.’
Heron ‘Piece of metal.’
After a change of tapes, the questioning continues.
Officer ‘What did you do with it?’
Heron ‘Hit her.’
Officer ‘Hit her where?’
Heron Unintelligible
Officer ‘No you didn’t George, tell us what you did with it...But you did
something else to her didn’t you, you say with a piece of metal, what
did you do? . . . Now you did something with that piece of metal didn’t
you . . . the body has been examined George we know exactly what happened,
if you’re telling the truth just tell us what then happened.’
Heron ‘Stuck it between her legs’
Officer ‘Stuck what between her legs?’
Heron ‘The metal pipe’
Officer ‘And what did it do?’
Heron ‘Blood.’
Officer ‘Blood where?’
Heron ‘On the floor on the pipe.’
Officer ‘Where did the blood come from?’
Heron ‘Nikki.’
Officer ‘But where from? From her head?’
Heron ‘From between her legs.’
Officer ‘From between her legs? Howay George, look us in the eyes and tell
me the truth ...WellI’msaying to you that you did something else to
her as well, didn’t you eh? . . . what did you do?’
Heron ‘Assaulted her.’
Officer ‘What do you mean you assaulted her?’
Heron ‘Sexually.’
Officer ‘What did you do?’
Heron ‘Tried to have sex with her.’
Officer ‘How did you try to have sex with her? ‘How did you try to have sex
with her?’
Heron ‘Same way everybody has sex.’
Officer ‘...youdidn’t try to have sex with her, did you George?’
Heron ‘No.’