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                                                   KIM MOFFATT, Examined:
 
 
 
     1        it is, "Defendants' witnesses volume II".  If you turn to
     2        divider 31, I hope -- I do not know what order they are in
     3        in that file -- you will find some handwritten notes.  They
     4        are not Mr. Beech's handwriting.  They are Mr. Morris'
     5        handwriting.
     6        A.  Yes.
     7
     8   Q.   You have those, have you?
     9        A.  Yes.
    10
    11   Q.   Are they headed, "Notes for further details of Alan Beech's
    12        evidence"?
    13        A.  Yes.
    14
    15   Q.   What I am going to do is read these out, Miss Moffatt, and
    16        then ask you to comment on them; not all of them, but
    17        some.  The first one under "breaks and hours", it says:
    18        "Alan Beech's shifts were usually 4 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. or
    19        12.00 p.m., sometimes did 12.00 until 8.00, according to
    20        the schedule.  Most people worked past schedule time, not
    21        allowed to go or pressured to stay on for generally
    22        anything from 15 minutes extra to five hours extra.  This
    23        happened to others."  We do not know whether he means
    24        others than himself or others as well as himself.
    25
    26        Miss Moffatt, do you have any comment on that allegation by
    27        Mr. Beech about his hours and his shifts, so far as your
    28        recollection of his time in the store is concerned?
    29        A.  I thought -- I did not think he did as long.  I thought
    30        he did a minimum of about eight, so I do not think he did
    31        -- because he had put 12.00 to 11.00 or 12.00, I do not
    32        think he did as long as that.  I cannot -- I know he was
    33        not pressured into staying on.
    34
    35   Q.   Were you ever there when closes were being done from, sort
    36        of, 11.00 to midnight?
    37        A.  No.
    38
    39   Q.   No.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You said a minimum of eight.  Did you mean a
    42        minimum of eight?
    43        A.  I do not think he did much more than eight hours at a
    44        time.
    45
    46   Q.   Yes.  Minimum of eight means not less than eight?
    47        A.  Yes, sorry -- maximum
    48
    49   Q.   You meant maximum?
    50        A.  Yes, sorry. 
    51 
    52   MR. RAMPTON:  Then he says next:  "On 4.00 to 12.00 shift, which 
    53        is an eight hour shift", but then he puts in brackets
    54         "(i.e. 4.00 to close)", and Mr. Morris has put in square
    55        brackets "[1.00 to 2.00 p.m.]".  I think he must mean 2
    56        a.m..
    57
    58   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, sorry, it is a mistake.
    59
    60   MR. RAMPTON:   "...  often got given a break" -----
 
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