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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                                 DAVID ROBERTS, Examined:
 
 
 
     1   MR. RAMPTON:  There are 23, my Lord.
     2
     3   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry, what are we doing?
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am numbering them from the top.  For
     6        instance, next to where "1994" is written, I have got to
     7        5.  I am purely doing that for ease of reference.  22, 5 to
     8        46 is 15, for instance.  As Mr. Rampton has just said,
     9        there are 23 lines altogether.
    10
    11   MR. RAMPTON:  Making roughly 46 weeks.  Did you do the
    12        numbering, Mr. Roberts?
    13        A.  Yes, I did.
    14
    15   Q.   Thank you very much.  Can you go down to No. 17 then,
    16        please?
    17        A.  OK.
    18
    19   Q.   We see that in that fortnight Mr. Beech worked just over 16
    20        hours, but the following two fortnights from 3rd July to
    21        16th and from 17th to 30th, he did respectively 44 and a
    22        half and 47 and three-quarters approximately, including by
    23        comparison with these other fortnights quite a lot of
    24        premium.  Do you see that?
    25        A.  Yes, I do.
    26
    27   Q.   What does that suggest to you?
    28        A.  Well, if it is over a fortnight, it would have been
    29        about 23 hours a week, which could be either three shifts
    30        or two shifts for those weeks.
    31
    32   Q.   Can one tell from looking at the premium figures, which are
    33        totals for a fortnight, whether or not any of those were
    34        closes past midnight?
    35        A.  The hours that he worked were afternoon and evening, so
    36        the premium would be after 11 o'clock, so he could have
    37        worked after 11 o'clock.
    38
    39   MR. MORRIS:  Which ones are we looking at?
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  17, then 18 and 19.
    42
    43   MR. RAMPTON:  17, 18 and 19.  Then, Mr. Roberts, you see, we go
    44        back to a figure of 38 and a half roughly with no premium,
    45        and then it tails down until we get to his last fortnight
    46        when he does just over 21.  Thank you, Mr. Roberts.  That
    47        is all I wanted to ask you about that chart.
    48
    49        Can you put that file away, please?  Just put it on the
    50        table, because I expect the Defendants will want you to 
    51        refer to it.  Find instead another file -- not the 
    52        Heathrow; keep the Heathrow one by you because we will need 
    53        that in a minute -- a powder blue one on the top in a shelf
    54        of its own on the top, No. II, and I think it is tab 31.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  It is quite near the back, divider 31.
    57
    58   MR. RAMPTON:  First of all, there should be a typewritten
    59        statement by Mr. Beech and then a handwritten -- it is not
    60        by Mr. Beech; it is Mr. Morris' account of what Mr. Beech,
 
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