Day 122 - 05 May 95 - Page 11

     
     1        statements have "7th June" on them?
     2        A.  I would think that was probably a deliberate act on my
     3        part.  That was the day that my statement would have come
     4        back.  It was a revamped version, but I signed the
     5        statement on that particular day.  So, I dated it the same.
     6
     7   Q.   Even though there were changes to it?
     8        A.  Omissions.
     9
    10   Q.   Omissions and at least one change, well, one change?
    11        A.  Well, I did not pick up the change in it.  Could you
    12        remind what the change was?  Oh, yes I do.  I had not
    13        noticed it.
    14
    15   Q.   You did not notice it?
    16        A.  No.
    17
    18   Q.   So did you not read your statement before you signed it?
    19        A.  Yes.
    20
    Q.   Why was that part changed?
    22        A.  I do not know.
    23
    24   Q.   Did you ask to change it?
    25        A.  No.
    26
    27   Q.   So was it suggested to you that you should change it?
    28        A.  No, I think the change was I had said "I and my
    29        successor", and the change simply says "Operations,
    30        Managers and Human Resource Officers", and that was just
    31        extending the number of people who were monitoring it.
    32        I think the evidence I have given to the court is that it
    33        is Operation Supervisors and Human Resource Officers who
    34        monitor the analysis of hours, overtime and how the
    35        analysis of hours worked.
    36
    37   Q.   So it is not you?  So the reason you changed your statement
    38        was because the first statement was wrong?
    39        A.  No.  I and my successor do, but it is a wider audience
    40        that monitors it.
    41
    42   Q.   Is it your recollection that your statement was changed
    43        after it was decided that Jill Barnes would give evidence
    44        about -----
    45        A.  That was the main thrust of it, yes.
    46
    47   Q.   Can you explain why Jill Barnes signed her statement five
    48        days before your first statement?
    49        A.  No.
    50 
    51   Q.   You cannot explain that? 
    52        A.  No, it probably had taken five days before. 
    53
    54   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, Mrs. Brinley-Codd has suggested that she
    55        does know what happened.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ms. Steel is certainly entitled to pursue it,
    58        but at the moment I have to say that it would only concern
    59        me if I could see some ulterior deceptive motive, and
    60        I cannot see one at the moment.