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MR. HOWARD LINDSAY'S EVIDENCE
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His moral stance was such that he was knowingly breaking the local law by engaging in homosexual activities, yet still thought he could properly continue as Crown Counsel.
2.
His veracity was such that he tried to be fair and honest. His evidence was probably substantially true, coloured only by his inability to stifle entirely his bitterness towards the Attorney General, Messrs. Brooks and Quinn, and probably also towards the SIU, the Police and the Government as a whole.
3. a On 17 August 1979 and 21 August 1979, Chief Inspector Quinn and Mr. Lindsay met. Chief Inspector Quinn told Mr. Lindsay he was not interested in private acts of homosexuality and he did not wish to pursue the investigation into Mr. Lindsay or to bring charges. Chief Inspector Quinn also told Mr. Lindsay it was instructions from the Attorney General personally and that the reason for Mr. Lindsay's prosecution was that senior police officers were going to be arrested within the next few days and that not to proceed against Crown Counsel whilst proceeding against police would give justifiable cause for complaint to the Police. The above account is based on Mr. Lindsay's evidence.
4.
As in the statements taken for the purpose of prosecution of Inspector MacLennan, the statements against Mr. Lindsay were full of inconsistencies particularly as regards dates and places: all of the witnesses in Mr. Lindsay's trial made the same mistakes about dates and were inaccurate by two or more months. There is however nothing unusual about these discrepancies, which sometimes do occur in witnesses' statements used for the purpose of prosecution.