Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 74
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think 8 probably the -----
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3 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Bishop, 8 should be a four page statement
4 signed on the fourth page by somebody; is that you?
5 A. It is.
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7 Q. On 18th May, 1993?
8 A. That is correct.
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10 Q. Right. Can you turn to 8B and C which, I am told, go
11 together?
12 A. Yes.
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14 Q. B is four pages, or just over three. It is another
15 statement, again signed by you on 20th May, 1995?
16 A. That is correct.
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18 Q. Then a short one just over the page, same date. Is there a
19 short statement about this case?
20 A. There is.
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22 Q. Then, finally, 8C, is it?
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, that would be D. The support statement
25 is C.
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27 MR. RAMPTON: D, which is a longer one.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The second supplementary.
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31 MR. RAMPTON: The second supplementary, six pages, again with a
32 signature at the bottom dated 14th May, 1996?
33 A. That is the witness statement, yes.
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35 Q. That is where the witness statement of Brian Bishop
36 started?
37 A. Yes.
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39 Q. Is that right?
40 A. That is correct.
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42 Q. Are those all statements that you have made for the purpose
43 of these proceedings?
44 A. They are.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you want to, just as a matter of
47 form-----
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49 MR. RAMPTON: So far as you can say now at this distance of
50 time, are the contents of those statements true?
51 A. They are.
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53 Q. One question I would like to ask you: In so far as they
54 contain statements of fact about what took place in 1990,
55 how far are these statements done from pure memory and how
56 far from reliance on notes and contemporaneous matters of
57 that kind?
58 A. The statements were made as a result of statements made
59 at the time that the meetings took place.
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