FORMAL SAFETY INTERVIEW RECORD

SUBJECT: Rachel Keane KC

CLASSIFICATION: OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE // SAFETY INVESTIGATION

REFERENCE: CONTROLLED COPY // COT/MARINE/2035/CTC031

Document control

CASE REFERENCE: COT/MARINE/2035/CTC031

SUBJECT: Rachel Keane KC

CENTRAL RECORD: COT234141A15774C

RANK / APPOINTMENT: King’s Counsel / legal director

ORGANISATION: International Identity Crimes Unit / independent legal authority

DATE OF BIRTH: 1996-10-09

PLACE / NATIONALITY: Dublin, County Dublin, Irish

INTERVIEW STATUS: Witness / account holder

LOCATION: Secure interview suite — location withheld

DATE: 24 October 2035

LEAD AUTHORITY: Marine Accident Investigation Branch

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: attached; dossier image frames available: 2; surveillance frames available: 0; identity match: matched by subject/asset map.

Reason for interview or reconstruction

This record concerns the subject's knowledge of evidence, Sanctuary; and associated decisions, communications and evidence handling. 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 asked that every pause, qualification and refusal be retained in the written transcript. No request was made to remove material already placed on the record.

Recorded interview transcript

LEAD INSPECTOR: State your full name for the record.

RACHEL KEANE KC: Rachel Keane KC

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: I understand the status. I do not accept that the distribution is as limited as the header suggests.

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: I have, and I reserve the right to stop if the questioning moves outside them.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-01 Retained extract: Rachel Keane KC: legal director, independent authority, high probability of emergency injunction and cross-border revocation. “Neither has a protected mapping we can use,” Murchison said. “Sykes will follow Ward into danger even when his body cannot. Associated persons: Fiona Ward, Daniel Sykes, Dr Leonie Murchison

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: That is what the system reported. It is not necessarily what the equipment physically did. Fiona Ward can confirm the sequence, but not necessarily the interpretation.

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: I preserved the raw state before testing the explanation. Anything else would have changed the evidence. Fiona Ward can confirm the sequence, but not necessarily the interpretation.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-02 Retained extract: Rachel’s voice replaced Fiona’s. “Rachel Keane KC, legal director of the IICU. Relevant systems or locations: evidence

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: I preserved the raw state before testing the explanation. Anything else would have changed the evidence. I will not improve my memory to make the chronology easier.

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: The values agree with one another. Agreement is not proof that they describe the real world. If the original is no longer available, that absence should remain part of your finding.

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: I am saying two honest records can disagree when they were generated from the same compromised source.

DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-03 Retained extract: REQUESTING AUTHORITY - RACHEL KEANE KC. Associated persons: Natalie Brooks Relevant systems or locations: Sanctuary, evidence

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: The timing is supportable. Attribution is not. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: I preserved the raw state before testing the explanation. Anything else would have changed the evidence. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: I have withheld attribution, not the physical event.

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: Return to the original physical record and identify every hand that altered its custody.

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

RACHEL KEANE KC: Preserve the questions I declined. They may matter more than the answers you expected.

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

Supplemental visual evidence exhibits

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. Obtain or compare the independent account of Fiona Ward; do not disclose this transcript before their unaided account is fixed.
2. Obtain or compare the independent account of Daniel Sykes; do not disclose this transcript before their unaided account is fixed.
3. Obtain or compare the independent account of Dr Leonie Murchison; do not disclose this transcript before their unaided account is fixed.
4. Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with evidence, including audit history and physical custody.
5. Preserve and independently verify the original record associated with Sanctuary, including audit history and physical custody.
6. 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 INSPECTOR — sealed electronic signature held separately

Evidence custodian — receipt and hash recorded

END OF CONTROLLED RECORD — CTC-031