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322 Deception at Work
No. Topic Question or response Comment Labels and
actions
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136 I answered Michael’s question as Merely ‘answered’ and ‘repeated’
I ran I repeated ‘the dingo has got not ‘yelled’ and thus emotionally
the baby’. inconsistent.
Got ‘the’ baby not as she said
earlier ‘my baby’
137 As I reached the edge of the road ‘it was if it had vanished’ =
the dingo had disappeared. There imagination?. It had, in fact
was dead silence I could not hear it vanished
or see it was as if it had vanished.
138 It was very dark here the low bushes Here not there
made very dense shadow
139 Michael had run straight from She had told Michael that the
the cooking area He called ‘which dingo was in the tent. Was
way’ as he ran I pointed and said in Michael’s a guilty assumption
there. He ran straight into the scrub indicating prior knowledge.
several yards away with no torch. Lindy never said the dingo had
away from the tent with the baby.
140 I called it’s no good you can’t see Is it possible that they planned Our
you’ll need a torch. We had looked to make sure no torch was
for our spare torch earlier it was the available? The effect was that
big one the big ‘Jim’. Something Michael was able to return to the
had been packed on top of it tent while the others searched in
turning it on. The new battery was the bush
flat.
141 Our other torches needed new ‘Yelled’ as loud as I could for a
batteries I knew they weren’t torch. Contrasts with ‘called “
good enough. I yelled as loud as I and “repeated”
could ‘Has anybody got a torch’.
‘The dingo has got the baby has
anybody got a torch’.
142 I prayed they wouldn’t think I was All to do with
drunk or joking Three men with the torch
torches came almost instantly.
One from the right and one from
the left hand tents near us. I can’t
remember whether the third man
came from the right or the left.
They were running with their
torches on. and called ‘Which way’
I pointed and said in there they
called to one another to spread out
and went three different directions
from the spot.