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                                                                  DAY 216
 
                                          KEVIN HARRISON, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        someone to begin work at, say, 11 o'clock and be required
     2        to go on a break at half past 11, and then be expected to
     3        complete the rest of the shift without a break, which,
     4        given the nature of the store at Ipswich being incredibly
     5        busy, was extremely tiring.
     6
     7   Q.   Equally, someone might work from 11.00 right through to
     8        half past two or three before getting a break, might they
     9        not?
    10        A.  It would more than likely be later than that.
    11
    12   Q.   That is what happens in a busy restaurant on a busy day, is
    13        it not?
    14        A.  But when somebody requests to go on a break and you
    15        tell them "no", or they request to go to the toilet or to
    16        have a drink and you have to deny them that privilege until
    17        the customers are served, it becomes unreasonable.
    18
    19   Q.   You actually denied them the privilege, as you call, of
    20        going to the toilet?
    21        A.  It has been done on occasion, yes.  I have asked people
    22        to wait.
    23
    24   Q.   You must have quite a lot of uncomfortable people working?
    25        A.  I am not saying it happened every day or every shift,
    26        but it has on occasion happened.
    27
    28   Q.   Notice, please, on the second page of your second statement
    29        an assertion about cutting cheese slices in two.  Who
    30        suggested that you put that into the statement?
    31        A.  No one suggested it.  It was in response to: "Do you
    32        remember anything about this?"
    33
    34   Q.   One of the Defendants said to you, I expect:  "Do you
    35        remember anything about cutting cheese slices in two"?
    36        A.  No.  It was a result of information that I had already
    37        read.
    38
    39   Q.   What, from the evidence of Mr. Gibney, perhaps?
    40        A.  From a selection of statements that were sent to me.
    41
    42   Q.   Can you tell me, finally, Mr. Harrison:  at the end of your
    43        first handwritten statement, there is a long PS about
    44        altering the amounts on the tills.
    45        A.  Yes.
    46
    47   Q.   I am not at all sure -- I do not know about his Lordship --
    48        what you are saying was the purpose of this exercise at
    49        Ipswich?
    50        A.  Sorry, could you repeat that? 
    51 
    52   Q.   Yes.  I am not sure I understand -- perhaps you can tell 
    53        us -- what you say was the purpose of this exercise in
    54        altering the tills at Ipswich?
    55        A.  If the tills showed a significant cash minus for a
    56        period of time, it was a way of adjusting the amount of
    57        money to take account of that.  Now, I myself have done it
    58        and, to my knowledge, two other people in managerial
    59        positions have done it.
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