“Q. What you said to Miss Montgomery was the others were
his sister, his wife and his mother, and you said later on Zoran
came into the equation?
A. Yes, because he talked about Zoran afterwards.
Q.
When is later on?
A. It has to be after I went to Spain. It has to between 1984
and 1986. But I can’t honestly put a month or a time on that at
all.
Q. Are you suggesting, because I don’t think anybody else
has, that [Bane] thought that his son was plotting to harm him?
A.
That’s what he said.
Q.
You are saying that he actually said that?
A.
I knew him. That’s what he said to me.
Q.
He said that in so many words?
A.
He said that to me.”
I regret that I am unable to accept this evidence, because it appears to be in total
conflict with what Mr Brown said earlier in his cross-examination, and repeated in reexamination, to the effect that after his move to Spain in 1983 Bane never mentioned
Zoran and never wanted to talk about him at all. Mr Brown gave his oral evidence
with expansive self-confidence, but I think that on this occasion he allowed himself to
embellish his recollection. I cannot believe that if Bane had ever said to him, in so
many words, that Zoran was plotting to harm him, he would not have remembered
this and included it in the statement which he gave to Zoran’s solicitors in January of
this year.
117.
I now move on to the witnesses of fact who gave evidence for the CPA. They were as
follows:
(a) Peter Evans;
(b) Barbara Yerolemou;
(c) Wioletta Trojanowska;
(d) Ivor Thomas Gabe;
(e) Raymond Seeley;
(f) General Stuart Watson;
(g) Robert Anderson Wood;
(h) Archpriest Milun Kostic; and