Day 260 - 11 Jun 96 - Page 08

     
     1        relation to activities concerning McDonald's.
     2
     3   Q.   How did you become aware of that?
     4        A.  When I reported on what had happened at meetings, or
     5        what I had seen at meetings, by virtue of the questions
     6        that were asked of me by the inquiry firm, I came to the
     7        conclusion that the interest lay in the direction of
     8        McDonald's.
     9
    10   Q.   When was that that you came to that conclusion --
    11        obviously, not the exact week?
    12        A.  There was no specific time.  By the beginning of August
    13        I was aware of the interest.
    14
    15   Q.   But you still did not know if it was about a specific
    16        leaflet or just about the anti-McDonald's campaign
    17        generally?
    18        A.  Yes.  I assumed that the interest in the inquiry was to
    19        discover what the group was intending to do in the
    20        anti-McDonald's campaign.
    21
    22   Q.   Right.  So it was about the general anti-McDonald's
    23        campaign?
    24        A.  Yes.
    25
    26   Q.   Were you given instructions about what you could and could
    27        not get involved with?
    28        A.  No.  I was given a free hand.
    29
    30   Q.   You were not told that you must not take any
    31        correspondence, or anything like that?
    32        A.  No.  I was not given any instructions of that nature.
    33
    34   Q.   When did you first become aware that you were going to give
    35        evidence or that you might be asked to give evidence?
    36        A.  It must have been two or three years after my interest
    37        in the case had ended.
    38
    39   Q.   So, it would have been shortly before you made your
    40        statement, which was 1993?
         A.  Yes, yes.
    42
    43   Q.   Right.  That was the first time when it was suggested to
    44        you about giving evidence?
    45        A.  That was the first time I was aware that the
    46        possibility existed that I would be giving evidence, yes.
    47
    48   Q.   Right.
    49        A.  That was the first time I knew it was going to go to
    50        court. 
    51 
    52   Q.   As you said yesterday, I think, when the statement was made 
    53        it was based entirely on what was in your notes?
    54        A.  The statement that I made was compiled by the
    55        solicitors from the reports that I had submitted at the
    56        time, yes.
    57
    58   Q.   Had you carried out quite a lot of investigations in the
    59        meantime?
    60        A.  Yes, indeed.