Day 249 - 14 May 96 - Page 60
1 company?
2 A. Yes, at that time.
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4 Q. Who else did you meet later?
5 A. I met one of the operatives.
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7 Q. Who was that?
8 A. Alan Sclare.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Alan?
11 A. Sclare, I think his name was.
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13 Q. Clare?
14 A. Sclare. I am sorry, yes. I confuse his name with
15 someone else I know, another Sclare. Clare. Alan Clare.
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17 MS. STEEL: When was it you met Alan Clare?
18 A. Towards the end of the observation. They were the...
19 No, I beg your pardon, he was not Kings, he was the other
20 company. So, I did not meet anyone else from Kings at
21 all. Hartley was the only person I met from Kings.
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23 Q. OK. When was it you first spoke to Bishops?
24 A. I think the date was 2nd October, it was early October.
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26 Q. Who was it you spoke to there?
27 A. Spears.
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29 Q. Is that Mr. Spears?
30 A. Yes.
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32 Q. Was he the managing director?
33 A. He was a director, I do not think he was the managing
34 director. But I had met him before.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He was your choice was he?
37 A. Yes, he was.
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39 MS. STEEL: Do you know what the full name of the Bishops
40 company is, because there are two firms called Bishops?
41 A. I did. I mean, I got their headed notepaper but
42 I cannot remember what they call themselves -- Bishops
43 Investigations perhaps, I do not know.
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45 Q. Right. So you had spoken to these companies before the
46 picket on 16th October 1989?
47 A. Yes.
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49 Q. Do you know which private investigators were working for
50 which company?
51 A. No. Apart from Clare.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We need the 5-minute break about now. If you
54 wan to ask another question do, but otherwise we will take
55 it now.
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57 MS. STEEL: That is OK.
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59 (Short adjournment)
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