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     1        them?
     2
     3   MR. MORRIS:  The same people.  I am saying you tried to find out
     4        if these people had been on other pickets or anything like
     5        that?
     6        A.  I did not bother.
     7
     8   Q.   You did not bother.  So, what you said before about
     9        checking up, if there were themes and individuals roaming
    10        around the country, that was just a load of rubbish then,
    11        you did not actually do that?
    12        A.  Sorry, could you say that again?
    13
    14   Q.   You said the purpose of asking people to do reports and
    15        take photographs from local stores was to try to check if
    16        there was, for example, some people that were going to many
    17        different stores.  Here we have a demonstration organised
    18        by London Greenpeace ---
    19        A.  Yes.
    20
    21   Q.   -- who probably, we can all agree, were involved in a
    22        campaign against McDonald's, printing leaflets or whatever,
    23        and you never checked if any of the persons involved in
    24        this demonstration were the same as had been elsewhere?
    25        A.  No, I did not.
    26
    27   Q.   So, in fact, your collection of photographs from other
    28        stores was a worthless exercise?
    29        A.  Well, no, because I knew that London Greenpeace was
    30        responsible for this one.  I had been checking with the
    31        others before and I did not see any common denominator
    32        between any of the stores.
    33
    34   Q.   I am just having a think -----
    35
    36   MS. STEEL:   Just to compare the statement and the report:  If
    37        you look at paragraph (9) of your statement and at the same
    38        time the largest paragraph in your report, if you ignore
    39        the paragraph that has big bits blanked out, the
    40        description of the events is virtually the same, is it not?
    41        A.  I would accept that; it was a set of facts which
    42        I witnessed.
    43
    44   Q.   You would accept that the description is virtually exactly
    45        the same?
    46        A.  I would say it is very similar, yes, but I would not be
    47        surprised at that.
    48
    49   Q.   Including inept juggling tricks ---
    50        A.  Yes. 
    51 
    52   Q.   -- getting into a cow suit and performing a play aimed 
    53        against the Company, except that in your report it says:
    54         "They distributed leaflets to passers-by and unfolded the
    55        London Greenpeace banners and anti-McDonald's placards",
    56        whereas in your statement it says "... and distributed
    57        'What's wrong with McDonald's' leaflets to passers-by".
    58        A.  Yes.
    59
    60   Q.   Is that something you added because you knew that the
 
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