fellow.
I was not to know that my whole conversation in the prison was being taped, and that the Attorney General would later use that one sentence from the trans- crist to indicate how much I respected him. I did not have the benefit of that transcript, and the whole episode of using the transcript for one person's benefit socmed (unethical to me. However, ethics apply to some and not to others, some being
· more equal than others". I presume the Attorney-General considered all my conver- sation to be a lie except the sentence that put him in a good light.
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Early in February I began to receive phone calls from Police Inspection Merons Pelly, requesting me to give a statement on what I knew of the MacLennan Case. He said he had been appointed to investigate for the Coroner. I refused, stating that the Attorney-General had promised to hold an investigation and I would give my statement to him. Eventually I discovered, on phoning the Attorney- Conerei, that this was the investigation he had promised, a policeman being appointe Coroner's Officer. That may be normal procedure, but it was certainly not what the Attorney-General had led me to believe, and thus step by step I realised that we were back into the old system from which there is no way out into a free and open investigation of anything. This entrapped feeling has pervaded the whole of the Mac
the only breath of fresh air being provided by a few witnesses, and several of the personnel brought from Britain and not part of the conspiracy of silence and obedience.
Lennan case,
Mr. Pelly was persistent and eventually I agreed to meet him, and at the meeting I found him affable. I then agreed to give him a statement. It was not a very full or well-prepared statement because my heart and confidence were absent. I understood that I would be called as a witness at the Inquest'due to begin at the end of February,
five days before the Inquest began, I received a phone call from a person named Moorfoot of the Legal Department. He wanted to see me in his office.. I had idea who this person was and why he wanted to see me. At the interview he hegan by telling me that I should feel free to ask him any questions I wished: concer ing the death of John MacLennan. He wanted to clear my doubts. I then asked him the question uppermost in my mind, how MacLennan could have shot himself five times. He said he could answer that quite easily. John was righthanded, and had shot himself first in the heart. His hand, as it weakened, trailed off to the right, so į the remainder of the shots were diagonally from left to right across the chest. He drew a line across his own chest to indicate. Imagine my shock when, about a week later at the Inquest, I found Mr. Moorfoot appeared as Counsel for the Attorney-Gener An even greater shock came when the pathologist took the stand and said that the first four shots were all in the heart region, and the fifth at the waist on the left of the body. This in no way coincided with Mr. Moorfoot, except that the first shot had entered the heart. An experienced pathologist later informed me that if the first shot had entered the heart, the rest would not have been possible. The pathologist did not rule out suicide, but he totally disagreed with the order of the shots.
Mr. Moorfoot also tried to clarify my mind at the interview by explaining How it could be proved that MacLennan was a homosexual. They had pictures of his