CHAIRPERSON
When you mention the suspect that they had ample time to have been able to rape them if that was their motive, you will recall that from the evidence of both the applicants as well as Elsie's, that what really interrupted the chain of events, whether those event would have been political or purely criminal, was Elsie's initial resistance immediately after coming out of the tavern.  By that I'm just merely trying to address the question of the fact that they had ample time to do whatever they would have wanted to do.  That does not remove, however, your argument that if, their offences had been politically motivated.  But as to time, even if they had intended to do something criminal, Elsie's resistance I think interfered with the train of events that would have followed.