Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 41


     
       1      A.  At the time of being asked this information, it was
       2      some nine to 10 years ago.  With no records in my
       3      possession whatsoever, everything I was doing was by
       4      memory, so dates and positions would as I can remember it
       5      at the time I was asked.  I have no way of verifying any
       6      of that information other than from memory, but the facts
       7      as I have stated happened.  The position or the time might
       8      be astray but the facts are true.
       9
      10 Q.   You recall that you said in your first statement that all
      11      but one of them were sacked.  Pilgrim, Claydon, Keo,
      12      Jackson and Shafibeik -- which of them was the one that
      13      was not sacked on a pretext?
      14      A.  I believe it was Shafibeik.
      15
      16 Q.   It is strange, is it not, that he was taken back on after
      17      having been a member of this frightful group of disruptive
      18      employees, do you not agree?
      19      A.  As it has already been stated, many people were taken
      20      back on by myself or other Managers who had been dismissed
      21      by other people, possibly because we did not agree with
      22      what happened to them at the time.
      23
      24 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What do you mean, "taken back on"?
      25
      26 MR. RAMPTON:  Mr. Shafibeik, my Lord, says (and Mr. Coton has
      27      confirmed it), that he came back after September 1984 and
      28      worked another period about a year later.
      29
      30 MS. STEEL:  Can I just make an observation, which is that he
      31      does not actually say in which period of his employment it
      32      was that this MMF took place.  Perhaps it is something we
      33      ought to clarify here.
      34
      35 MR. RAMPTON (To the witness):  Do you agree that it looks,
      36      according to Mr. Shafibeik (whose evidence you have
      37      confirmed as being accurate), that he was taken back on
      38      after September 1984 about a year later?
      39      A.  That could have been the case, but he was not ever
      40      sacked, to my knowledge, for anything in the first place.
      41
      42 Q.   You say that Mr. Jackson was sacked, yes, Mr. Paul
      43      Jackson, because of this activity?
      44      A.  To the best of my knowledge, yes, he was dismissed for
      45      something relating to that incident.
      46
      47 Q.   Then I would like you to look, if you will -- we have made
      48      copies for everybody -- at what you said about this
      49      yesterday.  I have taken these from the official
      50      transcript.  That is one for the witness and one for the
      51      judge.  I want to start, if I may, at the top of page 28
      52      at near the top at line 8 where Mr. Morris embarks on 
      53      McDonald's Freedom Fighters:
      54
      55      "Just going on to the McDonald's Freedom Fighters, can you
      56      remember how it started?"  Answer by Mr. Coton:  "Yes, I
      57      mean, it started as a bit of a joke one Bank Holiday when
      58      there was a group of the lads -- I was there as well --
      59      and we were actually drinking.  It was a Bank Holiday
      60      afternoon".  "That was at a pub, was it?"

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