W RIAAN BELLINGAN
That might be so, because if I saw him the first time on Tuesday I would have told him to try and delay that until we had more information.  I mean, there are ways in which he could get out of the group.  I told him that if they asked him where you were going, that he should say that you had to contact other informers.  He had to go to the city to see if his weapons were correct, ready.  What he has said, thus, could be true, that he came out and he came to see me again to tell me that the people were serious, they wanted to continue with the operation and then I would have asked him is there no possibility that we could get them together at a central point and that we could arrest them.  That is what I would have asked him.  Surely prevention is better than cure.