FORMAL WITNESS INTERVIEW

SUBJECT: Noor Halabi

CLASSIFICATION: OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE // INVESTIGATION

REFERENCE: CONTROLLED COPY // COT/JOINT/2035/CTC033

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CASE REFERENCE: COT/JOINT/2035/CTC033

SUBJECT: Noor Halabi

CENTRAL RECORD: COT588BAF81CB970

RANK / APPOINTMENT: Restored survivor and human face of the Night List

ORGANISATION: Nursing / restored survivor network

VESSEL / POSTING: MV Solace while abducted

DATE OF BIRTH: 2003-02-09

PLACE / NATIONALITY: Unknown, Unknown, Not established; restored Orpheus survivor

INTERVIEW STATUS: Witness / account holder

LOCATION: Secure interview suite — location withheld

DATE: 19 September 2035

LEAD AUTHORITY: Joint Investigation Team

RECORDING MEDIA: Two sealed digital masters and one independent evidential hash

DISTRIBUTION: Named recipients only. No automated onward distribution.

NOTE: Handling notice. This document contains operational, personal and evidential material. It may be read only by a person with both the required clearance and a recorded need to know. Extraction of images, transcript segments or metadata creates a new controlled copy.

Identity and visual evidence control

VISUAL ASSET STATUS: Passport image: not attached; dossier image frames available: 0; surveillance frames available: 0; identity match: asset missing or unmapped.

IDENTITY EXHIBIT P-01 // NOT ATTACHED. No matching passport-style WebP asset is present in assets/images/character/passport for this subject.

Visual asset review note: Missing: no Noor Halabi passport or surveillance asset found.

Reason for interview or reconstruction

This record concerns the subject's knowledge of events, communications and decisions under active investigation. The scope of this record is confined to the matters set out above and to evidence formally introduced during the session.

Preliminary investigator note

The subject completed identity verification but challenged the assumption that a valid administrative record necessarily described the physical event.

Recorded interview transcript

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: State your full name for the record.

NOOR HALABI: Noor Halabi

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you understand the status of this interview and the limits placed on distribution?

NOOR HALABI: I understand. My agreement to answer does not waive any objection already entered into the record.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Have you been offered the representation, legal advice or staff support applicable to this procedure?

NOOR HALABI: Yes. The offer should not be mistaken for my acceptance of your account.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-01 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Noor Halabi.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?

NOOR HALABI: That is broadly how I remember it. I cannot confirm the exact time from memory. Check the physical record against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: What did you understand at that moment, before later analysis supplied a larger explanation?

NOOR HALABI: I saw what happened. I did not know then what it meant. I will not improve my memory to make the chronology easier.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-02 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Noor Halabi.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?

NOOR HALABI: That is broadly how I remember it. I cannot confirm the exact time from memory. My answer is limited to what I personally saw, heard or ordered.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Who else was physically present and capable of confirming your account without relying on the same electronic record?

NOOR HALABI: I saw what happened. I did not know then what it meant. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Are you saying the official record is wrong?

NOOR HALABI: I am saying you should preserve the contradiction instead of choosing the tidier version.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-03 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Noor Halabi.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?

NOOR HALABI: That is broadly how I remember it. I cannot confirm the exact time from memory. Check the physical record against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Why was the matter not escalated through the ordinary reporting route?

NOOR HALABI: The record may be right. I can only tell you what was in front of me. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Is there any material fact you have withheld because you consider this recording or its distribution unsafe?

NOOR HALABI: I have limited answers where disclosure would identify a living source or an untested route.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: What is the single next action this investigation should take?

NOOR HALABI: Speak to the people who were physically present before asking another database to explain them.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR: Do you wish to add or correct anything before the recording is suspended?

NOOR HALABI: Yes. Do not improve the certainty of my answers in the written summary.

[Recording suspended. Source media sealed. Any resumed session requires a new opening declaration and exhibit schedule.]

Confidential investigator assessment

The subject repeatedly separated instrument output from physical observation. That distinction is supported by known discrepancies in the retained material and should be preserved in any summary.

Actions and inconsistencies outstanding

1. Recover acquisition authority, original-resolution files and adjacent frames for every surveillance exhibit.

NOTE: Finding limit. Nothing in this record establishes guilt, operational direction or final causation unless expressly stated as a supported finding. A valid credential, image or system entry proves only what that item can independently support.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR — sealed electronic signature held separately

Evidence custodian — receipt and hash recorded

END OF CONTROLLED RECORD — CTC-033