‘Glance-over-shoulder’ Forecast

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31384, 1 June 1967, Page 13

‘Glance-over-shoulder’ Forecast

in.z.p. A.-Reuter—copyright) LONDON, May 31. One of the accused in the Tr--1"r 1 " had supported evidence of illtreatment given by a prosecution witness, would have to “glance over his shoulder” for the rest of his life, a counsel said today.

Mr Basil Widoger, Q.C., said that Alfred Berman had left the comparative safety of the swats said that a prosecution witness, James Taggart, was telle truth when he spoke goes j about, for the rest of his life, las a result of what he has

done, he won’t be able to walk along any street in this country or anywhere in the world without constantly glancing over his shoulder,” Mr Widoder said. As a result of what Berman said in evidence, the prosecution were able to get their teeth into something with great force, Mr Wigoder said. The accused are: Charles

William Richardson, Edward George Richardson, Roy Hall, Francis Fraser, Alfred Abraham Berman, James Alf red Moody, Thomas Charles Clark, and Albert Johsn Longman.

They are charged variously in an indictment of 22 counts alleging robbery, assault and demanding money with menaces. Not all are charged in the same counts.