MR PRINSLOO
I respectfully submit Mr Chairman, if they did not destroy that weapon, it would have been absurd of anyone to retain a weapon in your possession in a mission that was not, in that sense, of any benefit to them.
	The benefit in this sense that the members of the organisation would then be arrested.  What better evidence would you expect than to find a weapon which could be linked to these people that robbed and killed these person.  That would have been the best thing out.
	In many instances, and many cases, this takes place where a weapon is thrown into a dam or is destroyed or whatever.  But to say that it could be used in a struggle that was just ahead, I respectfully submit Mr Chairman, it just doesn't go up in these circumstances.
	What do you want to do with a weapon that is hot at that stage, and the police are hot on your heels, and it is a man that is going to hospital and they know this man is going to be detected in hospital.  He's got to be treated, he was treated, he was found in hospital very soon after that.
	The facts substantiate that.  To retain that weapon would have been absurd in my submission.