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Extract from letter from Mr Stuart Benson
to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
* * * For example, you have, I hope, received:
* * *
2. Extracts of all relevant entries from
the Park Lane message books.
3. The copy statements from Mr Macnamara
demonstrating the lack of credibility of the evidence from Mr
Betterman.
4. My own letter dealing with the unreliability
of Mrs Pollard, and enclosing a copy of the Affidavit sworn by
Richard Fleck of Herbert Smith.
5. A copy of the book "Sleaze".
Please confirm that you have safely received
all of these.
Could you also let me have a full copy of Mrs
Pollard's statement, as requested.
* * *
As to the issues which you have raised
with me as being outstanding (I refer in particular to your letter
of 11 February) I am sending to you at the same time as this
letter an exchange of correspondence between Mr Al-Fayed and
Midland Bank confirming that, after this length of time, it is
unable to identify cash withdrawals made by Mr Al-Fayed in the
period 1986-1989. If you want to pursue anything further with
Midland Bank please let me know and I will do whatever I reasonably
can to assist.[12] I
can confirm that security records held at reception at Park Lane
no longer exist. As Mr Bromfield explained to you, there would
be no reason for them to have been kept for such a long period
of time.
I have now obtained the relevant diaries and
will, within the next two or three days, let you have copies of
every relevant entry together with an invitation to Mr Pleming
to attend to inspect the originals of those entries.
I am also hoping to have from Messrs D J Freeman
tomorrow confirmation of the way in which Mr Al-Fayed's statement
for the defamation proceedings was prepared.
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17 February 1997
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