NORMAN ARENDSE
That is correct but not Gqomfa, Gqomfa was arrested in July and even if one has regard - and I did, to the so-called confessions that were extracted from both Mabala and Madasi, no mention was made of Cerqueira or him having a gun.
	Mr Chairman, if I may proceed?  Another question that arises:
"Why was an analysis not done of the specimen taken from the hands of the deceased after it was sent for analysis in January 1994"?
	These tests were only done on the 18th of November 1997.  Now again, I had made a written request to an expert in this field to assist me and obviously that's not evidence before this Committee but I think it's just common sense, he say amongst other things that: "Yes, it is possible that you could store the specimen for as long as it has been stored and still get an accurate analysis done", so I don't have a problem with that.  	
	He said the big problem is that period between 11H30 to 4H30 the following morning, during this time the deceased could have been moved and the residue from his hands could have been removed in that fashion.  He says: "It is also possible that if one has regard to the photographs - if one looks at the way Mr Cerqueira was lying, he appears to have both his hands beneath his body and when he was removed there's a large pool of blood at the scene - at the drain where he was lying", so there's a number of questions which then arises from that.  
	So yes, the specimen that was sent does not reflect that he used a gun but it's possible that the gun residue could have been removed by him having been touched - we know that Mr Brode for example and his broth Mr Francesco Cerqueira claimed to have gone to him and they lifted him and during the course of that they could have touched his hands and in that fashion the gun residue could have been removed.