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No. Topic Question or response Comment Labels and
actions

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143 Michael called to them to help him ‘Michael’ = pleased with him
I called come back and get a torch Michael already had a torch but
Michael you can’t see. He started came back
to come back. The man we were
having tea with had got his torch
and met us near the car as I was
coming back with Michael, back to
meet Michael.

144 He spoke to us I can’t remember
what except telling him which
way to go. He went straight. the
Western Australian lady had come
round by the car. and asked me had
we gone for the Police. I said ‘No’
and she said would you like my
husband to go

145 and I said Yes and Michael hasn’t Michael now had a torch but

got a torch our torch is no good appears reluctant to leave the

and the battery is flat. She loaned immediate scene. She said earlier

us a torch. simply that the battery was flat =

inconsistency

146 Michael by this time had got back Michael at the car. He already

to the car We tried to give him a had a torch … but searches for

torch it was a fluorescent one about more. He kept coming back to the

a foot long like those trouble lights. car and tent

He wouldn’t take it He seemed to

be in shock He kept looking for

ours. He used our small one.

147 Did you see anything in its mouth LACK OF COMMITMENT?
when it ran into the scrub?

148 I have already stated that I didn’t, Referral statement = possibly DOG

my mind refused to entertain the untrue. Only ‘like’ a mental block

possibility. It was like a mental = imagination. The use of the

block. I tried to recapture the non-threatening label ‘dog’ at

picture. I can see the dog in my this point is very strange. ‘In my

mind, its mouth remains a blurred mind is not reality’ = imagination

blank.

Q You have related so far up to the
time when neighbouring campers
commenced searching. Could you
go on from that point?