Day 267 - 21 Jun 96 - Page 57
1 Q. Would you accept that -----
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, do not answer that question. If I hear
4 evidence to that effect, and I prefer it to Mr. Claire's, I
5 will have to wait and see where that takes me. But it is
6 no use asking the witness if he would accept such and such,
7 if there is such and such evidence. It just is not a
8 helpful way of progressing with the issues.
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10 MR. MORRIS: You are capable of making mistakes, are you?
11 A. Yes, I am.
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13 Q. I am pleased to hear that!
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15 MS. STEEL: Can I just ask, for number 6 you have put "Answered
16 letters regarding McDonald's". When you were in there on
17 this occasion you did not go down the whole box and go
18 through every single letter, did you?
19 A. No, I did not.
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21 Q. Did you ever do that on any occasion?
22 A. I cannot recall. To have put that down, I assume at
23 some stage I must have done.
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25 Q. If I put to you that it was answered, all answered letters,
26 whether or not they were about McDonald's and there might
27 have been some McDonald's ones in there but it certainly
28 was not just McDonald's letters, would you accept that?
29 A. All I can say is that, from whatever I did at that
30 time, I have put down "answered letters regarding
31 McDonald's". If I had grabbed out a handful of letters and
32 they all related to McDonald's, that could be the case.
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34 Q. Right. What, if you grabbed out a handful to take back to
35 your offices?
36 A. No, if I looked at a handful. If I took out a handful
37 to look at.
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39 Q. I should have done this in the right order, but I will just
40 start at the beginning. Where we have got number 2 in
41 photograph 6, the "three trays hold certain info as above",
42 sorry, "as shown", one being education enquiries, the other
43 being "perjury distro", and the tray in the middle holds
44 incoming letters for Paul, Helen, Stephen, Andrew and
45 John. Why did you put those names?
46 A. I am sorry, I am looking at number 6.
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48 Q. Yes.
49 A. It would have been either visible to me or I would
50 have gleaned that at some stage, and that is how I would
51 have described it.
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53 Q. They are not on the tray. The tray is not labelled, is it?
54 A. I cannot see it labelled, no.
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56 Q. Are you trying to suggest it was a personal mail tray for
57 just those five people, or was it basically just a tray
58 where anything that might be addressed to an individual got
59 put?
60 A. My notes name those individuals and, for some reason,
