MR VEAREY
Yes, that is correct.  I deny that I have made any such requests to Captain Benzien.
	When I did see Captain Benzien about a year ago, early in last year, I was at that time busy with an investigation into some crime family in the Northern Suburbs and I was informed given his past experience in Murder and Robbery, he would be able to make a substantial contribution to some information that I might require in relation to that inquiry.
	I do recall that at that occasion, I did tell Mr Benzien - raised some issue regarding whether or not I feel comfortable with the past that the two of us had together, that past being the fact that he was part of the team that arrested me in 1987 and he was also part of the team for the first session, that actually questioned me.
	In that regard I told him at that particular occasion, when I met him last year, that I have no personal grudges, I bear no personal grudges against him.	Those are the two references to our only conversation we have had in early last year.  
	I want to add that I was neither in a position at that point in time, in the South African Police Service to have offered him a position at all in any rational way.