24 hours in police custody

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Is anyone watching?
These parents are GUILTY!!

Definitely low IQ.

Does he not have a solicitor? Can he maybe opt for an appropriate adult in lieu of one?

I must have missed a bit - why does he need to have an appropriate adult? Why not just a solicitor?

Also, I have often wondered this, I presume they don't show this sort of programme in prisons? I was just imagining all the rest of the inmates watching it.

Does anyone know why a 31 year old would need an appropriate adult?

I wonder if its because if a learning disability? They said she was there to make sure he understood the questions.

What a nasty, angry piece of shit.

He boils with rage.

I thought he actually seemed quite articulate, which made it worse in some ways

I bet Star Hobsons step mother was like this..
Given his "son" has just died, he seems completely nonplussed.

Solicitor present too.

Appropriate adult cause he's thick TBH

Hope he loses it in interview. True colours.

Prison is the only place for this subhuman.

I’d actually be scared if I was that copper that he’d lose it and lunge at me in the interview. I’d want the table between me and him.

He seems to think it's fine to make threats and it's clever and works to get her to do what he wants

That little baby would have been safer on his own.

He is a disgusting, lying arsehole.

He talks like a threat is OK and quite normal... it worked.

Glad someone mentioned the wee puppy. poor wee thing, hope he's been rehomed and is safe like the kids.
watching part 2 on catch up, he's one scary angry man.

I would guess the appropriate adult attended because of some sort of documented SEN or learning difficulties. That could include non-specific difficulties like having a low IQ. (I think. Prepared to be corrected if I’ve got that wrong). I worked as an Intermediary which was a similar role but we usually worked with defendants actually during their trial. We sometimes attended police interviews too. We were allocated to people aged between 18 and 25 who had autism or Speech and Language Disorders/Conditions.

I'm sure he knew that already.

I don’t understand. Wasn’t she pregnant when they met?

I don't see any genuine tears falling out of his eyes.

That's not real crying is it?

He knew he wasn't the father.

What a scumbag. I'm so angry.

Least convincing crying ever

I googled

Put simply, a person is now vulnerable if a police officer has any reason to suspect the person may:

have difficulty understanding the full implications or communicating effectively about anything to do with their detention; or
have difficulty understanding the significance or things they are told, questions, or their own answers; or
may be prone to confusion, suggestibility, or compliance
may be prone to providing unintentionally unreliable, misleading or self-incriminating information.
Relevant conditions include (but are not limited to):

mental illness
learning disabilities
autistism spectrum conditions
brain injury.

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