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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                                 DAVID ROBERTS, Examined:
 
 
 
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     2   Q.   Some of which come, about half of it, when you were the
     3        Manager?
     4        A.  That is correct.
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     6   Q.   Have you an explanation why that gap appears there with no
     7        entries at all for seven months?
     8        A.  There would -- I do not know for a fact, but I would
     9        assume that there was more than one book available at the
    10        time.  We did use to keep all the books in none drawer
    11        because of restrictions on space.  I can only assume that
    12        somebody was entering it in another book.
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    14   Q.   Can we assume that you are not proposing that there were no
    15        accidents during that seven month period?
    16        A.  I would find it hard to believe if there was no minor
    17        accidents.
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    19   Q.   You have been through Mr. Beech's original statement?
    20        A.  Yes, I have.
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    22   Q.   You dealt with that in your own statement.  In a moment we
    23        are going to go through his new allegations, but before
    24        I do that I want to ask you first if you have a clear
    25        memory of him?
    26        A.  I do remember him, yes.
    27
    28   Q.   This is during your time.  He worked for you, I think,
    29        roughly about three months, so far as we can tell.  If you
    30        can remember, what times of day he would usually do his
    31        shifts?
    32        A.  I recall he worked from 12.00 until 10.00, from noon
    33        until 10 o'clock in the evening.
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    35   Q.   Again, this is rough -- I have the figures here, but
    36        I would like to ask you for your memory first -- do you
    37        remember roughly how many shifts he would do in a week
    38        while you were the Manager?
    39        A.  It was usually two shifts a week.
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    41   Q.   What length of shifts?
    42        A.  10 hours.
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    44   Q.   10 hours.  My Lord, what I have done -- this is, of course,
    45        subject to correction by anybody else who has done the
    46        figures -- is to make a table showing the number of hours
    47        Mr. Beech worked in each fortnight from when he began on
    48        7th November through to the last fortnight that he worked
    49        ending 24th September 1994.  I put in the total number of
    50        hours which I have converted from decimals into hours and 
    51        minutes and the number of premium hours during each of 
    52        those fortnights.  I would just like to ask Mr. Roberts one 
    53        or two questions.
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    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us have a -----
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    57   MR. RAMPTON:  Would your Lordship like to see it?
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    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think everyone should have time to look at
    60        it first.
 
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