Annex IV12
File note by the Parliamentary Commissioner
for Standards
KEITH
VAZ
8 NOVEMBER
2001
7 PM:
TELEPHONE
CALL
FROM
MRS
GRESTY
IN
A
VERY
DISTRESSED
STATE
Mrs Gresty said that she had received a letter from
solicitors of Mrs Vaz that day and she felt that she just could
not cope with it. She said she now felt she wanted to withdraw
the statement she had made. I said that it was of course up to
her if she wished to withdraw the statements but I needed to remind
her that Mr Vaz had had sight of them already so she ought to
consider whether that was what she really wanted to do. She said
that she felt very frightened indeed and that she felt the only
thing she could do was to withdraw her statements. I said I felt
she should reflect on that very carefully and decide whether that
was what she wanted to do. I asked her whether her decision to
withdraw the statements was based on the fact that she now wanted
to say they were untrue. She said "No, they are true".
I said in that case she should think very carefully about whether
she wished to withdraw them. I suggested that she thought about
it over the weekend and came to see me on Monday. She said she
would do that.
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