11.   Defence counsel Roderick Carus, QC, said proper records had never been kept by the Welfare Scheme.

12.   Defence counsel, Andrew Nuttall, said Manning had pleaded guilty and shortly after being arrested confessed to all the offences.

13.   His defence counsel, Andrew Trollope, QC, had described the prosecution case against Ward as a travesty during the five-week trial.

14.   The defence counsel, Hugh Irwin, said McKie had been drinking.

15.   The defence counsel, Robert Anthony, said that McCormack was not a drinker and had acted out of character after consuming alcohol that night.

16.   Allan Muir, defence counsel, told the court that Brown had no previous convictions for violence.

17.   Coffin wondered what a defence counsel would have made of that lack if the case had ever come to trial.

18.   Rahiman said this when cross examined by defence counsel Jagjit Singh at the trial of Md Yusop who is charged with giving false evidence in the High Court.

19.   Ahmad Zaidi made the decision after hearing submissions from Deputy Public Prosecutor Fatnin Yusof and defence counsel K. Murali.

20.   But defence counsel John McNamara opposed the move, saying prosecutors had missed their chance.