TNAG-0604-FCO40-752-Capital-punishment-in-Dependent-Territories-1977 — Page 132

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Now, you will remember all the identification

that you had, lots of identification, about the blue shirt,

the brown pants and they saw him going up there, all that

is admitted by the accused. He tells you that's my

trousers I had it on and that's my blue shirt, so you

don't have to go through all of that story, if anybody

saw him in the blue shirt and brown pants, because it

was admitted. So that should give you no problem. These

are circumstances from which the Crown is saying that his

act was a deliberate act, that he planned, premeditated

with malice aforethought, and intended to do grievous

bodily harm. The Defence says no,

if I had intended to

do it, I would never had acted like that. That's a

foolish way for a reasonable person to act.

Members of the Jury, you have it that he changed

his clothes and he went off to the airport, he seems to

have had a change of shirt with him, because he was seen

at one time in a white jersey and a black pants and he was

seen another time in a blue jersey and a black pants. He

seems to have had a change. But you have to decide what's

the significance of that change. Does that change indicate

that he had it all planned before or does it indicate that

having realised he is in trouble he has got to find a way

to keep himself from being properly identified while he can

make his escape. You will have to ask yourself that

question. Then we have the story that he goes to the

airport, and having got there, he has to go to the airline

clerk to get a ticket, and we know the long story about

that, we need hardly go through that, there is no dispute

about it. He goes to the airline, there is no room

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