Day 079 - 27 Jan 95 - Page 15
1 Q. Yes.
2 A. Yes, well, you make enough stock for the Christmas
3 sales.
4
5 Q. Is it right that at the time, around 1990/1991, there was
6 no record kept of which batches got sent to which stores?
7 A. No, that is not correct.
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9 Q. Can you read the fifth paragraph?
10 A. Yes, I have read it.
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12 Q. Sorry?
13 A. I have read it.
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15 Q. Is that correct or not?
16 A. No, that is talking about distribution; it is not
17 talking about McKey.
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19 Q. So, is it correct if it is talking about distribution
20 then?
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you want to take it in two parts, because
23 there is a part about the build up of stock which is one
24 thing, and then there is a second part of the paragraph.
25 Do you remember, you asked the other day about whether
26 there was a record of where things had come from and gone
27 to, of that kind? What I suggest is you take the first
28 half of the paragraph. (To the witness): Do you disagree
29 with that, Mr. Walker?
30 A. No, sir.
31
32 Q. Do you say that is talking not about McKey holding stocks
33 but about stocks which had already gone out and held or you
34 think it is?
35 A. No, excuse me, my Lord. I read that, that whoever
36 wrote this report says there is no record in Preston of the
37 boxes received.
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39 Q. We have not come to that yet; we are just talking of the
40 first part of the paragraph.
41 A. In meat that we produce with a code on the box, we know
42 where that meat came from and ------
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44 Q. I am sorry. Just listen, if you do not mind. I have only
45 got down to "as quickly as usual" yet, I have not got on to
46 the second half and tracing.
47 A. Are you referring to the fifth paragraph still, sir?
48
49 Q. Yes. It starts: "During the meeting of the Department of
50 Health on 1st February 1991".
51 A. I am sorry, sir, I do not know. I am reading
52 page -----
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You said something a moment ago which led me
55 to believe that you were joining issue with that paragraph
56 on the basis that if stock had been built up beforehand it
57 had been built up somewhere outside McKey's?
58 A. No, sir. What my point, sir, was that when you produce
59 the burgers and they are frozen and, therefore, held at
60 minus 20 degrees Centigrade, they are perfectly and
