Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 51
1 advance, which he said this morning. I do not think we
2 need to look at them.
3
4 THE WITNESS: The PRs tended to be done when there was an audit
5 due or they knew there was going to be an audit done, and
6 they rushed a load through. That is why you used to get
7 batches of PRs being done. It was not an even process over
8 a year, that you do a couple a week every week; it would be
9 a whole load would be done in a week and then nothing would
10 be done for another month or two, or very few would be done
11 for another month or two.
12
13 MR. MORRIS: If I can just point to one example, between pages
14 55 and 58, the PRs of Jagon Flint, it has 5589 -- wait a
15 minute, 7789, 7989 and 71189; just an example of that kind
16 of thing.
17 A. When we used to run out of the PR forms we used to pull
18 out other people's PRs that had not been finished, that had
19 not been written yet, but they had been named and dated,
20 and we would scratch out the names and dates and put in a
21 different name and date, and you have got that on several
22 of these PRs. They have got -- the date and name have been
23 scratched out. That was because it was, you know, they
24 have pulled those out of the file that have already been
25 named and dated and had to use it for somebody else. I am
26 trying to find -- page 144 has, you know, it has been
27 crossed out.
28
29 Q. That is John Gore, yes, 144?
30 A. Yes.
31
32 Q. It was?
33 A. Sinidu Asseta.
34
35 Q. Dated 28.10.94, and it was changed to John Gore, 15.11.94?
36 A. Yes. The page 143 before it is the same, 15.7.94, it
37 has, you know ......
38
39 Q. A different person's name was crossed out though?
40 A. Yes, it was just pulled out. We had to do him two PRs
41 and they have just been scratched out.
42
43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But what was sinister about heading up a
44 number and putting dates on and putting them in the file
45 because -----
46 A. It was sinister because it was done before they would
47 ever get the PR, they would have a whole load of them dated
48 and in a file that everybody had a sleeve in that file and
49 they would have two or three blank PRs with their name and
50 a date on, with different dates, but what it meant was you
51 never got your PR on time. PR -----
52
53 Q. So far there is nothing necessarily sinister in it because
54 just as you put in an entry in your diary ahead to remind
55 you have to do something -- you are going to tell me about
56 it -- up to that point, having a whole series of PR forms
57 with the name of a particular crew member on and then dates
58 which were two months apart ---
59 A. Yes.
60
