Day 188 - 15 Nov 95 - Page 67
1 locker on which he or she permanently kept a
2 lock. There was no previous known example of
3 management enforcing this rule.
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5 Tony denied all knowledge of what might have
6 been inside the locker. It was blatantly
7 obvious to me that he was lying. I persisted
8 with my complaints every time the opportunity
9 arose. Approximately a week later I brought the
10 subject up again in conversation with Tony. On
11 this occasion Tony said that the locker had been
12 broken open by another crew member, or at least
13 he 'presumed this was the case'.
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15 Tony said that it was not impossible that this
16 was what had happened, since other crew members
17 had had their belongings stolen by fellow crew
18 members recently. (This was true. I myself had
19 had a jacket stolen from the crew room shortly
20 before that time). However, any other thefts
21 that had occurred had not involved locks being
22 broken off lockers.
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24 I pressed Tony saying that I could not see why
25 it was that valueless items had been taken from
26 my locker and the only valuable item that was in
27 there, i.e. the shoes, had been left. Tony's
28 response was 'So what? What of any interest to
29 me would be in your locker?'. I did respond and
30 said, 'I do not know, Tony; you tell me what
31 would interest you, Tony'.
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33 I did not discuss the locker incident with any
34 of the other crew members except one of my
35 friends Kevin. I informed the police of this
36 incident. I went to Highbury Police
37 Station"-----
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think -- you can read, "Kevin was
40 himself very keen on the union idea".
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42 MS. STEEL: Sorry, I did not realise that had not been crossed
43 out.
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45 "Kevin was himself very keen on the union idea.
46 I informed the police of this incident. I went
47 to Highbury Police Station (just off Seven
48 Sisters Road). The police said that there was
49 no evidence of a break-in. They filled out a
50 report form and absolutely nothing happened.
51 The police refused to look into the matter
52 because they were 'overstretched'.
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54 After my conversation with Kevin, I approached
55 Tony again and accused him of lying. Tony is a
56 very placid person who is usually most
57 diplomatic and polite. However, on this
58 occasion, Tony became so agitated that he even
59 swore - this was completely unheard of. As he
60 turned to go away, Tony said to me 'If you do
