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ran in both directions up and down the lane and some of these

persons ran into him and it was at that moment that he felt

himself stabbed in the thigh. That at this stage he became

terrified and turned round and ran back up the lane, that he

pushed one person aside and he then just ran and ran. That

he ran as far as Reclamation Street and as he could not run

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any further he collapsed a stairway and that he then noticed.

a lorry parked in the road so he climbed into it to rest, and

that he felt dizzy, and he said that after a lapse of time he

heard some persons go by so he shouted for help, and the person

came up and said that he was a police officer. He said that he

told the police that he had been robbed and was injured and he

said that he asked the police to get him to hospital and that

they said that they would telephone for an ambulance, that at this

stage he lost consciousness, and when he regained consciousness

he found that he was in hospital. He said that he did not remember

being helped out of the back of the lorry, and he did not remember

being searched, and he said that he was not carrying any paper

sheath that night.

This evidence of course does not agree with his statement

to the police as to where he was originally robbed, nor does it

agree with what the prisoner said in his statement when he said

that he lost consciousness in the lorry, then recovered consciousness, then was found by the police whom he requested to send him to

hospital. Also in his evidence the prisoner said that he fled from the lane in a blind panic, yet in his statement he was able to say

that the fruit stall was closed, that he knew it was a fruit stall because he saw fruit on it and a refrigerator, and that he thought

that there was a dim light on the fruit stall. When this latter

seeming discrepancy was pointed out to him the prisoner said that he did not notice these details on the night in question but that

he had passed the stall on other occasions and that it was on these

former occasions that he noticed these details. From the wording

of the question regarding the fruit stall to which he gave the

detailed answer in his statement it was quite clear that the question related to the time when he was attacked. The prisoner also denied that he had given certain other details to the police which appeared

in his statement.