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the reason why he denied the accuracy of his statement

to the police, Your Petitioner very foolishly rejected this

offer and chose to abide by his untrue story that he knew

nothing of this matter, until after the murder had taken

place.

11.

In View of the wrong attitude taken by Your

Petitioner from after his arrest until recently, it is

now clear to him how he could and was convicted of the

terrible crime of murder. However, on the facts of the

case, about which there is now no dispute, Your Petitioner

submits he could not, certainly he did not, foresee the

dreadful consequences of this plan to rob Mr. Teyfour.

12.

Nevertheless, in Your Petitioner's humble

submission, his crime was more akin to manslaughter than

murder which said plea admitting manslaughter would have

been accepted by the Covernment in the beginning of the

case. Your Petitioner craves leave to point out that the

evidence against him was no different at the end of the case

than was known to the Government when Crown Counsel made his

said offer.

13.

Knives

Your Petitioner repeats he certainly was not the

one who struck the blows and he had no knowledge of the

actual incident at the time. The joint plan was to rob,

and at the most tie up Mr. Teyfour if he interfered.

as he said in his statement were only disclosed to him at a

very late stage. He was clearly under the impression that they were being taken purely in case of emergency.

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