Day 268 - 24 Jun 96 - Page 10

     
     1        A.   No, this was probably one of the biggest
     2        investigations or first investigations that I became
     3        involved in.  I was very new to it and my contacts at that
     4        time would have been minimal.
     5
     6   Q.   When you went off to check their addresses, either on this
     7        occasion or on other occasions, you never ever got any
     8        information from the Police about addresses on those
     9        occasions?
    10        A.  I did not, no.
    11
    12   MR. MORRIS:  Is that because you do not remember or is that
    13        because you categorically say that you never contacted?
    14        A.   I do not ask Police, friends or acquaintances or
    15        colleagues, whatever you wish to call them, for any
    16        information which I am not entitled to.
    17
    18   Q.   And you are saying that you did not?
    19        A.  I am saying I do not and on that occasion I would not
    20        have.
    21
    22   MS. STEEL:  What about not ones that you necessarily know but
    23        ones that you might have contact with through the company
    24        that you worked for?
    25        A.   I do not recall speaking to any Police Officers about
    26        this investigation, save for one occasion.
    27
    28   Q.   Which occasion was that?
    29        A.   When following the antipoll tax riots I was asked to
    30        see if I could identify those members or anybody that I
    31        knew in those riots.
    32
    33   Q.   Why were you asked and by who?
    34        A.   Because I believe a principal of --
    35
    36   MR. RAMPTON:   My Lord, I wonder where we are going.  An inquiry
    37        by a Police Officer of the witness in relation to the
    38        antipoll tax riots really is now getting many miles away
    39        from anything.
    40
    MS. STEEL:  So that was they were asking you for information.
    42        What about you asking them for information about people's
    43        addresses?
    44        A.  I did not know these Officers.  I asked as a member of
    45        the public to see if I could identify anybody involved.
    46
    47   Q.   And did you get any information from them about people's
    48        addresses?
    49        A.  No, I did not, not that I recall.  This is six years
    50        ago.
    51
    52   Q.   So you may have done but you might have forgotten?
    53        A.   No, I doubt it very, very much.
    54
    55   Q.   These observations that you were keeping on people's
    56        addresses, did you also ever slip the locks of any of those
    57        addresses and enter people's houses?
    58        A.   Not at all.
    59
    60   Q.   Not at all?