MR O'FARRELL
...as I said, when it started, as I said, the applicant then walked directly past me towards Warrant Officer Van der Spuy, where they then started, where the applicant then started shouting, etcetera, etcetera, making a hell of a situation, where Warrant Officer Van der Spuy then took his police identification out of his pocket and identified himself to the applicant as a police official.  The applicant, however, ignored this and continued making a hell of a row and arguing and carrying on.   Warrant Officer Van der Spuy then said to him that unless he were to stop his actions or allow us to continue our work, that he would be arrested.   However, the applicant continued carrying on.  Warrant Officer Van der Spuy then reached out and attempted to - or grabbed the applicant by the wrist, at which stage the applicant then, in the type of rugby tackle style, grabbed him round the waist.   At that stage I was standing, I must presume, about three metres, three, four metres away from where this was happening, and was starting to move closer to where everything was happening.   At that stage, I then saw that the applicant then attempted to remove the firearm from Warrant Officer Van der Spuy's holster, however was unsuccessful.   At this stage, Warrant Officer Van der Spuy seemed to have got it right to be able to push the applicant away, draw his own firearm, at which point he then fired a warning shot into the ground, I would say approximately a foot to two foot away in front of the applicant.   The applicant, however - it didn't seem to hinder him, so he then again attacked Warrant Officer Van der Spuy, at which stage Warrant Officer Van der Spuy informed me that the applicant was attempting to disarm him.  At that stage, several people, I don't know where they came from, both ladies, men, one especially an old man, which I later became aware of was the applicant's father, the same gentleman who we found sitting on the sand heap, as well as several other persons in that area, also then joined into this little problem, and then also with other objects such as kieries, with pipes, or hosepipes, not pipes, just hosepipes and several other objects, just started hitting myself and Warrant Officer Van der Spuy.   Okay, Warrant Officer Van der Spuy then shouted and told me that the applicant was then busy biting his wrist, trying to disarm him, at which stage I then attempted to assist and also then said to the people there, in a language which I thought was reasonably relevant, that we didn't want any problem, we just wanted the firearm.   However, this came across dead ears.