Day 195 - 04 Dec 95 - Page 49
1 Q. Yes. I thought that might be the case. The same is true
2 of the next paragraph, is it not? It is what Simon Warr
3 told you, is it not?
4 A. There was no reason to assume they are lying when they
5 are telling me that.
6
7 Q. I forgive you, Mr. Alimi, for not being ----
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You are being asked for a specific reason,
10 you see, due to our laws of evidence. You are not being
11 asked to excuse the fact that you put it in your statement
12 at the moment. You are being asked for the basis of the
13 information in your statement.
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15 MR. RAMPTON: We find the same thing, Mr. Alimi, at the bottom
16 of the page, do we not: "No prior warning". This is prior
17 notice of being asked to do late closes, is it not?
18 A. Where are we, sorry?
19
20 Q. No. 2 on the same page on page 2: "No prior warning"?
21 A. OK.
22
23 Q. Is this what you are talking about? "95 per cent of the
24 time we were not given any prior notice"?
25 A. That is right. Prior notice, yes, of when late closes
26 were happening.
27
28 Q. Do you mean by the "late" closes the all night closes?
29 A. No, I mean something like 3.00 to 4 o'clock in the
30 morning.
31
32 Q. So if your diary has 4.00 till close, what you are telling
33 us is that it might turn out when you got there that it
34 would be 3.00 or 4.00 in the morning as opposed to half
35 past 12 or 1.00?
36 A. That is correct.
37
38 Q. Then you say this: "I do not have any dates and this did
39 not refer to me because I was not on the telephone so they
40 could not ring me to come in."
41 A. Yes.
42
43 Q. In fact, what you are talking about is people being brought
44 in when there was a staff shortage?
45 A. That is right. That is how it has been put in there.
46 It should not be really connected in that way.
47
48 Q. That ringing people at the last moment to get them to come
49 in if they were willing did not happen to you?
50 A. No, because I was not on the phone. I would have been
51 told the day before on my shift that, you know, the next
52 day: "Your shift has changed" but not -- they would not
53 have rung me up.
54
55 Q. This last paragraph and the first paragraph on the next
56 page are all what other people have told you, are they not?
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which one are we looking at now?
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60 MR. RAMPTON: Sorry, my Lord, the last paragraph: "I do not
