Bill McDonald
speaker
119 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Bill McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She exercised her right to speak, and actually she ended up, as time went on, tying herself in knots, because more and more times she was, well, I can't remember.
You start asking her about addresses that she lived at, she couldn't remember them. You started asking her about places that she went to, family, and she couldn't remember those either. And there were fundamental things like, well, you must remember where you lived. And then it was a question of, well, can you remember what school you went to?
And she named an area that she'd gone to school, but she couldn't remember the name of the high school.
Something from her that, concretely, we could go and say, right, OK, that proves you are who you are purporting to be.
I had a sense that she'd been schooled and rehearsed on what she should say when she got into that situation. The cover story, although she was comfortable with it, as it turned out, was fairly limited. So she kept repeating it.
We were kind of up against a brick wall and clearly we weren't going to be going any further.
Our main interest was with him.
And then there's breaks in the interview process where, you know, refreshment breaks, comfort breaks or whatever.
And I remember in one comfort break in front of his solicitor, David Davis kind of joyed me by suggesting that I should try harder or in some way I was going to have to up my game. And I... I can remember at the time that really sticking. The arrogance of somebody to say that in that situation.
But then when the tape is running during the formal interview, you're back to that, you know, no comment. I'm sure psychologists and people would have a field day.
And we knew that David Davis could be tied to a yacht of that name. And when we researched Coast Guard records and maritime records, There was a boat in the name of the Lady Jane at sea off the coast of South Devon around the time of what we believe to be the murder and recovery of the body.
The general circumstances put forward a fairly strong but not conclusive case that actually David Davis could be responsible for this man's murder.
We were literally running out of time. They were huddled in a room up on the top floor of the police station for literally hours, poring over documentation, representations from us and from other experts in relation to what we had and what we could actually prove.
And you're looking at the clock and thinking, we need a decision. And it was a question, you know, they're still considering it.
And he says, authorize a charge, charge him. And we charged him with murder.
He came rushing into the inquiry room and ushered me outside.
And it was unusual to see him quite so agitated. And he dragged me down the corridor into an office next to the fax machine. And I'm kind of perplexed looking at him. He said, we're just about to get a fax.
The fax machine sort of fires up and then lights are flashing and stuff and the pages are starting to come off the fax machine. And the first page that comes off is a mugshot of David Davis. And then the next thing that's coming off is an international arrest warrant in the name of Albert Walker.
It turns out that our man David Davis was actually wanted in Canada for theft, fraud and the embezzlement of money. We're not talking small change, we're talking big money. And then off the fax machine next is this picture of Noelle. And the next thing that emerges is that actually it's Sheena Walker.
And the allegation is that she's been abducted from Canada and taken overseas by her father, who is in fact Albert Walker. So we're looking at father and daughter together.
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