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Det. TARIQ: For the record, you've been advised that this interview is being transcribed and that you are here voluntarily. You're not under arrest at this time. Do you understand that?

██████████: Yes.

Det. TARIQ: Good. Let's go back to the evening of the 14th. You were at the Kalder Yıldızı club. What time did you arrive?

██████████: Around ten. Maybe half past. I wasn't watching the time.

Det. TARIQ: And your condition when you arrived — would you describe yourself as sober at that point?

██████████: I'd had a few drinks. After the match. It was a celebration.

Det. TARIQ: Just drinks.

██████████: (pause) Mostly.

Det. TARIQ: I'm going to be straightforward with you. The Guard officer who brought you in at 03:00 noted in his report that you were, and I'm quoting directly here, barely able to stand and unresponsive to several questions. He also noted your pupils were — (papers shuffling) — "significantly dilated and inconsistent with alcohol consumption alone." Does that sound like a fair description of your condition?

██████████: I don't- I don't really remember how I was when they — I don't remember much of that part.

Det. TARIQ: You don't remember much of that part.

██████████: No.

Det. TARIQ: How much of the evening do you remember?

██████████: (long pause) Most of it. The earlier part. It gets — after midnight it gets less clear.

Det. TARIQ: After midnight. Which is, of course, approximately when the incident occurred. Who were you with when you arrived?

██████████: Some people from ████████████████████. Good friends. It was informal. People came and went.

Det. TARIQ: When you say friends — what █████ do you play for?

██████████: ███████████████████████████████.

Det. TARIQ: And it was a celebration, you said. What were you celebrating?

██████████: A ████. We'd just won a ████████████████████████.

Det. TARIQ: Right. And during the course of the evening, did you at any point go into the back rooms? The area behind the main bar?

██████████: Once. To use the bathroom. It was busy out front.

Det. TARIQ: What time was that?

██████████: I don't know. Late. After midnight, probably. That's — that's in the part I don't remember as well.

Det. TARIQ: You remember going, but not when.

██████████: Yes.

Det. TARIQ: Please take a look at this woman. Do you remember her?

██████████: No.

Det. TARIQ: What about the one on the left, behind her? With the pink hair?

██████████: I think- I think I do remember seeing her, but we didn't speak. I think she was a ██████████.

Det. TARIQ: You'd never spoken to her. Never seen her before that evening.

██████████: No.

Det. TARIQ: Because we have a staff member who says she saw the two of you talking. Earlier in the evening. Near the bar.

██████████: (pause) People talk at bars. I mean, I- I talk to a lot of people. I don't always — I wouldn't necessarily remember everyone I spoke to. Especially that night.

Det. TARIQ: Especially that night.

██████████: Yes.

Det. TARIQ: So you may have spoken to her and simply don't remember.

██████████: I'm saying I don't remember. That's not the same thing as saying I did.

Det. TARIQ: Fair enough. When you went to the bathroom— the back bathroom— did you see anyone in the corridor? Anyone coming or going?

██████████: No. It was quiet back there.

Det. TARIQ: The bathroom you used- do you know which one it was? There are two back there. One on the left, one on the right at the end of the corridor.

██████████: The one on the left.

Det. TARIQ: You're certain about that.

██████████: (pause) Yes. The one on the left.

Det. TARIQ: (pause) The one on the right is where she was found. I just want to make sure you understand that I'm not asking these questions randomly.

██████████: I understand that.

Det. TARIQ: Is there anything about your condition that evening — the state you were in — that might mean your memory of the corridor, the bathroom, the timing, any of it, might be less reliable than you're presenting it?

██████████: (long pause) I've told you what I remember.

Det. TARIQ: That's not quite what I asked.

██████████: (inaudible)

Det. TARIQ: I need you to speak up.

██████████: I said I've told you what I remember. That's all I can do.

Det. TARIQ: Your account is consistent. I want to say that clearly. Everything you've told me this morning lines up with what we have.

██████████: Okay.

Det. TARIQ: I just think something doesn't add up. Not with you, necessarily. With the evening. With the way it's all sitting. You understand the difference?

██████████: (long pause) Yes.

Det. TARIQ: Is there anything you want to add? Anything you think I should know that I haven't asked about?

██████████: No.

Det. TARIQ: Alright. Thank you for coming in. Don't leave the city without letting us know. That's not a legal requirement at this stage, it's just a courtesy I'm asking for.

██████████: Fine.

[TRANSCRIPT ENDS — 09:48 — WITNESS DEPARTED WITHOUT FURTHER COMMENT]

INTERVIEWING OFFICER'S NOTE — DET. H. TARIQ, CG-2:

Witness was cooperative and composed throughout. Account is internally consistent and does not contradict physical evidence as currently understood. However I note the following for the record. Witness admits to impaired condition during the relevant period and cannot reliably account for a window of approximately ninety minutes. Witness's certainty regarding specific details — in particular the bathroom location — sits uneasily against his stated uncertainty regarding everything else from the same period. This may be nothing. Witness is ████████████████████ years old and was, by all accounts, not in a condition to have planned anything. I am not closing this line of inquiry. I am noting that it does not yet go anywhere.

— H. TARIQ. CG-2. 14TH. 10:02.