Day 166 - 28 Sep 95 - Page 05
1 Q. I will just ask you a few further questions about
2 yourself: What age are you now then?
3 A. 34.
4
5 Q. Are you married?
6 A. Yes.
7
8 Q. Got children?
9 A. Two.
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11 Q. Do your children eat at McDonald's?
12 A. Yes.
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14 Q. How old are they?
15 A. Four and a half and two and a half.
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17 Q. When you were at Marble Arch, did you know somebody called
18 Nicholas Magill?
19 A. Yes.
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21 Q. What is your memory of him?
22 A. A quiet lad, very punctual, hard working, nice lad,
23 probably kept himself to himself a bit, an Irish lad.
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25 Q. I think that you know that he has made a statement on
26 behalf of the Defendants in this case; you have had a
27 chance to read that, have you?
28 A. Yes.
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30 Q. Do you recall him making any of the allegations that he
31 makes in that statement at the time when you were working
32 with him?
33 A. No, none at all.
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35 Q. Would you expect him to have made those allegations to
36 you? Was your relationship such that you would have
37 expected him to make them -----
38 A. Quite possibly because I worked with him every day
39 nearly. Nick worked 9.00 until -- he worked in the
40 mornings, I did a lot of morning shifts, Monday to Friday
41 is what I meant to say he was working, and I used to do a
42 lot of opens, and would work alongside him every day.
43
44 Q. Did you have other managers come up to you and say:
45 "Nicholas Magill has been complaining to us"?
46 A. No.
47
48 MS. STEEL: Can you just hold on a moment?
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50 MR. MORRIS: Is it appropriate to ask (as often gets asked when
51 we have our witnesses in our witness box) if the statement
52 the witness has made is going to be taken as read to save
53 time or -----
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think it is up to Mr. Atkinson. I must say
56 I would encourage that in respect of all employment
57 witnesses, particularly now we are getting on to specific
58 instance on both sides.
59
60 MR. MORRIS: The thing is I know that -----
