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.
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