Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 43
1 20: "Anyway, you have here the group banding together and
2 the Company -- what happened?" Answer by you, Mr. Coton:
3 "Eventually, there was a meeting. Various people were
4 present. I can remember myself being there, someone
5 called Trudie Jones, Mark Davis, Frank Stanton, and it was
6 discussed that these people had to either tow the line or
7 go. If my memory serves me correctly, various ways were
8 sort of come up that would be given a hard time, or sacked
9 for some misdemeanor, or something like that. Within a
10 short period of time the majority of them had actually
11 either left or been sacked.
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13 As part of my development", your "development" as a what?
14 Trainee Manager?
15 A. It would have been within the management process, it
16 could -- as I said, it could have been either as a trainee
17 stage or as a Second Assistant.
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19 Q. Trainee Manager maybe in late 1984, Second Assistant in
20 early 1985, perhaps, is that what you mean?
21 A. As I said, unfortunately, at the time of this incident
22 happening, I had no reason to make notes or note dates or
23 times down.
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25 Q. You gave evidence on oath yesterday you said: "As part of
26 my involvement"?
27 A. Which is true.
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29 Q. Your development as a what?
30 A. Which is true -- I have no record of what that
31 development was. It could have been a Second Assistant;
32 it could have been a Trainee Manager. All I know is it
33 happened. It happened as stated and I am telling the
34 truth.
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36 Q. Second Assistant or Trainee Manager, yes?
37 A. Second Assistant or a Trainee Manager. I have got no
38 reason to lie about the incident have.
39
40 Q. Look at line 36, sorry, starting at 35: "I know, as a
41 Second Assistant, I was actually told: 'As part of your
42 management development, you have to tell this person that
43 their employment is terminated'. I believe all of them
44 either left or were sacked with the exception of one
45 person", who you now tell us is Shafibeik, "who carried on
46 working and subsequently left of his own accord later
47 on".
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49 Do you know, Mr. Coton, that Mr. Paul Jackson, one of
50 those who was allegedly sacked for being a member of this
51 group, left the Company on 8th November 1985, do you know
52 that?
53 A. No, I do not know what the date was.
54
55 Q. Pardon?
56 A. I do not know what the date was, no.
57
58 Q. If that should be right, and we have produced -- I do not
59 ask you to look at it now -- his employment record to show
60 that that was the date that he left, Frank Stanton can
