JEFFERY T BENZIEN
Your Honour, at that stage I was the policeman on the scene, making the arrest.  I have just disarmed a person with a firearm.  With hindsight and knowing how this tragic experience developed, I could say yes, yes it would have been the best thing to throw the firearm away, but I don't think anybody and I say it with all respect, who is in a situation like that and comes into the possession of the threat's weapon, throws the weapon away to equal the playing fields.
	At that stage it was not a case of a boxing or wrestling match.