Day 249 - 14 May 96 - Page 19

     
     1        the kerb where that implement is, whatever it is, and that
     2        youth.
     3
     4   MR. RAMPTON:  When you say 'the kerb', you mean the kerb onto
     5        the car park?
     6        A.  That is the exit from our car park.
     7
     8   MS. STEEL:   Can I just say, to be helpful so people can
     9        describe the implement, it is a pantomime axe.  I wanted to
    10        be helpful.  The thing lying on the pavement, on the kerb.
    11
    12   MR. RAMPTON:  Only this, finally, Mr. Nicholson.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I see.  I have just seen where the blade
    15        is.
    16
    17   MR. RAMPTON:  I am sorry, my Lord, I did not know how to
    18        describe it.
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS:  Pantomime axe.
    21
    22   MR. RAMPTON:  I understand that that is what the Defendants call
    23        it.
    24
    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is helpful because I can now see exactly
    26        which thing it is.  There are Indian juggling clubs as
    27        well.
    28
    29   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, that is right.
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You mean where the pantomime axe is?
    32        A.  Just roughly there.
    33
    34   Q.   Between the kerb where that is and where the young lad is?
    35        A.  Yes, that is right.
    36
    37   Q.   If it is a young lad.  It is sometimes difficult to tell?
    38        A.  Yes, indeed, my Lord.
    39
    40   Q.   Because of the photograph.
    41
    42   MR. RAMPTON:  2 final things, Mr. Nicholson.  Paragraph 25, you
    43        say you wanted to be offered a leaflet?
    44        A.  Yes.
    45
    46   Q.   But no one approached you so you walked round the back of
    47        the building, came out into the street on the north side,
    48        and started walking southwards along the pavement towards
    49        the tube station.  If we have 15 open on page 8 of the tab,
    50        roughly speaking, if you can see into the distance between 
    51        the people, where do you think you emerged onto the 
    52        pavement? 
    53        A.  Looking... ?
    54
    55   Q.   This looks northwards does it not?
    56        A.  Paragraph 15 is looking...  You are looking
    57        northwards.  That building that you see jutting out is a
    58        block of flats at the rear of our building.  There is a
    59        short service road between our building and that block of
    60        flats.  Then, if you go back to that photograph of the chap