Select Committee on Standards and Privileges Fifth Report


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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