pussyfoot with the Chinese"?
A.
I said it.
Q. Were you given copies of these newspaper articles?
Were they correct?
A.
Yes.
Q.
A.
Q.
Some of them vere not. Some of the articles are a bit padded up.
Was that quotation padded?
A. I am not sure. I can't remember.
Q.
A.
Were you given these articles to vet?
Soem ... yes, all of the articles I was given to vet but they were
much shorter than they appeared in the newspaper.
Are you saying that that passage I read to you are not your words?
Not to the best of my recollection, no.
Q.
A.
Q.
What steps did you take
A.
Q.
I might have said it was already published, I couldn't take any steps.
I might have said something similar.
Something similar. Does it represent your opinion as an experienced
police officer over the years?
A. Yes.
Q.
You have also discussed your methods of dealing with a suspect
who was playing dumb.
A.
Possibly.
Q. "I
*I used to whip him round to the butcher's shop. After a couple of
hours in the fridge we used to pull out the poor little twit, all
blue and blotches, and he was only too ready to cough up."
A.
True.
A.
4 84 8
Is that true?
True. Standard practice.
By whom?
Most C.I.D.
A.
Q.
Was it your standard practice?
A.
Not all the time, no *** sometimes.
Q.
Everybody else's and your 'sometimes'?
A
No, not all the time for everybody else either.
Q.
A.
Q.
There was an incident you described catching ... you said you were
"having a lot of trouble with Chinese who kept bringing in fruit,
oranges and apples,ostensibly to eat."
That's the wrestling matches.
"I used to catch them with half a dozen oranges up their jersey's and
when I asked them what they were going to do with them, they always replied 'Eat them*". So you made them eat them?