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hands and foot of the same group as that of the deceased, and the
same group as the blood found on the knife. It was queried that
if the prisoner had been stabbed with this knife before or after
the deceased had been stabbed with the same knife why was then no trace of blood of Group 0, the prisoner's blood group, on the knife? This was explained by the forensic pathologist who told the Court that if blood of Group B and blood of Group 0 are mixed together as they could have been on the knife the blood of Group B would
obliterate all traces of the blood of Group 0.
The prisoner's case was that he was walking down Bute Street, and was attacked and robbed by unknown persons at the entrance of the service lane, that he freed himself from his attackers and ran down the service lane colliding with some persons who rushed out from the door of a building which led into the service lane, and that one of these persons stabbed and wounded him. Although he did not say so specifically, the inference I imagine he wished the jury to draw was that these persons had been
in the James Bond Restaurant and had stabbed the deceased and that when he bumped into them somo of the blood perhaps from the knife or from one of the persons who might have been injured had come
in contact with his hands and foot. That one of these unidentified
persons after stabbing the prisoner had put the knife on the fruit stall and made good his escape. This of course does not agree with the statement made to the police by the prisoner. There is also the fact that no blood of Group B was found in the service lane which one might have expected if a person who bumped into the prisoner had been bleeding profusely. Although the prisoner said that he was not carrying a paper sheath that night he said that he did not remember the police searching him and finding the sheath as he was unconscious, but it was hinted on his behalf that one of the people running down the service lane might have tucked the sheath into the top of the prisoner's trousers when he collided with him. (As counsel for the Crown commented in his final speech to the jury this was highly improbable, if not impossible, as the prisoner had agreed that he was wearing a padded jacket which covered the top of his trousers.) The prisoner then ran to this lorry in Reclamation Street and that when he regained consciousness he was sitting up in the back of the lorry and he shouted for help. There was no