To ask if you would ever give the police a false alibi for your partner?

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Me and DH randomly got onto this today and he asked if I ever would, if asked. I said no, regardless of what the “crime” was. He said he would for me, but not for murder!
Wondered what the general consensus of Mumsnet was!

I've thought about this a lot over the years. I was 16 when the Soham girls were murdered and remember being equally horrified by the cover up by Maxine Carr. My mum said that she'd prob have covered for my dad in similar circumstances because she wouldn't have believed him capable and she clearly wasn't also scared of her partner. My dad would also never have done this for the record, but I still think about this with regards to my own partner. I don't think he'd harm anyone so I prob would give him an alibi. I don't think this is a black and white question

The Liam Neeson scenario is the only acceptable one for which to provide a false alibi. Anything else, no.

I think a more interesting question is would you provide an alibi for your children. I suspect most of us would.

I have a friend who provided an alibi for her son. She told me later that she didn’t even think- it just came out. She said it was like when they’re little and you move faster tha. Is actually possible to catch them or pull them away from
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Yes for nearly everything, either he had a good reason or he didn’t do it. It might not be the moral answer but he’d do the same for me!

If a burglar broke in and DP battered him, I might lie to say the burglar attacked first.
If his crime was involving an innocent person, I definitely wouldn't cover for him, there would be no excuse to justify a crime especially against a child.
DP is 6ft 2 and very gentle.