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WITNESSES.
Prosecution ‘poisoned evidence’
THE CAA was accused of “poisoning” evidence by not expect an officer to behave in this manner
placing identically-worded statements in the but said the statements were only one of several
statements of Travel Republic customers. lines of evidence in the case.
Hugo Keith QC, representing Pirie, likened this Nicholas Purnell QC, for Travel Republic,
to putting words into the mouths of witnesses to claimed the CAA made a political decision to
a violent crime and said it was an abuse of power. make an example of Travel Republic and enforce
Keith read out extracts from statements from its interpretation of Atol rules.
Travel Republic customers hit by the XL Travel He said: “The CAA had no witnesses so
Group collapse that appeared word for word in investigators from enforcement had to go back
10 customer statements. Each of these state- to licensing and say ‘please find us some
ments included the words: “I was buying a whole witnesses’.
package; I was buying a package holiday.” “The process is wholly unconventional and
Keith claimed one witness said in court the wholly inappropriate.”
statement was her own words though it was not.
He said if a police officer gave 10 witnesses
a description of a robber to put in their Verdict date: After summing up by both sides
statements, a court would have no hesitation in of the case on Tuesday, district judge Nicholas
striking out the case. The CAA’s behaviour had Evans told the court he would deliver his verdict
“poisoned the evidential well” at the heart of the on November 10 verbally, as well as issue a
case, Keith added. longer document outlining his decision.
Ian Croxford QC, for the CAA, agreed he would
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