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Mr Chairman, as I understood the evidence, the pocketbook did not come from a pocket.  I think within the
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context, they were driving, they saw a person, or saw a group, they stopped, got out of the vehicle and now these people are being searched in the way Mr Madlala said.  And I think on a balance of probabilities it could have happened.  All 15 of them weren't thoroughly searched, but there was some sort of search conducted on Mr Jama.  The first problem which they would encounter is whether there was something hard on this person in the form of a weapon.  I do not think it was a thorough search and I do think it was possible that something as soft as a book could have been discovered at a later stage.  And the person who had initially searched him could have felt the book and probably not paid much attention to it since they weren't really looking for books, but rather weapons and so forth and that a weapon did not surface.  And at a later stage when they had this person in the back of the police van they could have felt that there was something else here and under more calm circumstances they could have found the book.  They saw that the man was trying to hide something and secondly they weren't merely searching for weapons but also for dagga. 
Which could still have been hidden in that little pocketbook.  
	Mr Chairman, I still do not think, notwithstanding the fact that there are probably a few questions about that, I do not think that the Committee can find that there was no pocketbook.  That was the version which surfaced in front of Judge Thirion.  And I think even in that trial there were differences.  But even his words on page 814 of the original judgment, with regards to why Harrington, accused No 6, went to go and sit at the back.  "The most likely reason why accused 6 would have wanted to question the deceased would
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have been in connection with the notebook or diary found in the deceased's possession".
	I read through it once again last night and Judge Thirion does not refer to it again, but it seems as though he was satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a pocketbook found in his possession.