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he would be permitted to stay up to 28 days in Singapore,

otherwise he might have trouble with the Immigration authorities

in Singapore. Godber then said: "Fine, give me a return

ticket for a few days hence"; and he then purchased a return

ticket, the return half being for a flight on Sunday 10th June, the outward flight to Singapore being Singapore Air Lines flight SQ631. Mooney said that Godber paid for his ticket in $500 notes drawn from a wallet of notes of apparently

this denomination; that the wallet contained a wad of notes

about half an inch thick so thick, according to looney, that

it could not be bent double.

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Mooney said that Godber left the Westminster Travel

Office about 12.30 p.m.

Airline passenger manifests are typed the day before; but the names of passengers booking in at the last minute are added in ink. As regards flight SQ631, numbers 501-511 were allocated for last minute passengers by the passenger officers

at the checking-in desk.

Checking-in of passengers for flight S0631 started

at 1 p.m.

It is evident from the passenger manifest for that

flight that Godber was one of the last to check in. No one actually saw him; but someone presented a ticket in the name "P.F. Godber" at the airport check-in counter for flight S0631 and that person

was handed a boarding pass bearing the number 507. The check-in

clerk estimates that this took place at about 1.45 p.m.

in Airline hostess (Miss Stella Tsang) said that the plane was parked in one of the "jumbo" bays (bay 7); that

consequently an aero-bridge was used to convey the passengers;

that she was at exit 2 and guided the passengers, both transit

and those joining at Hong Kong, down the aero-bridge to gate 7;

and that she collected the stubs of boarding passes of joining

passengers and transit cards of transit passengers; that the

announcement for passengers to board was made at 2.10 p.m.;

that she thought she saw a man similar in looks to Godber enter the aero-bridge, but she cannot be certain. However, there is

no doubt but that a passenger boarding that flight handed in a boarding pass bearing the number 507. Flight SQ631 started

taxiing at 2.33 p.m. and took off at 2.38 p.m.