weeping
because the tears came out.
Crown Counsel: Now you say he was in
tears?
Yusuf: Yes.
Crown Counsel: You saw tears: did you
hear him crying?
Yusuf: No, I did not hear him.
Crown Counsel: Those tears or water you
saw. What was the volume? How many drops? Did they flow fast and furious?
Yusuf: I merely saw tears over this
part of the face below the eyes.
His Lordship: Just a little moisture
that you saw?
Yusuf: Yes.
His Lordship: Which appeared to you to
be tears having come from the eyes?
Yusuf: Yes.
Vernon Bailey, a marine officer attached to
the Singapore Marine Department, gave evidence that the channel between the two
Sisters Islands is not very wide. The narrow channel he described as ‘something
in the nature of a funnel’.
His Lordship: A funnel between the two
reefs, is that it?
Bailey: Funnel between the two islands
and between the two reefs.
His Lordship. Which makes it a more
constricted funnel?
Bailey: It makes it a more constricted
area, the funnel. By nature of the channel between the islands the water is
almost pushed in.
His lordship: Sucked in?
Bailey: Sucked in and blown out the
other end.
His Lordship: It blows out?
Bailey: Yes, accelerates and blows out
and you get whirls and eddies which are sort of circular motions of the water,
not to be confused with a whirl, a circular motion of water.
His Lordship: Of some force, of some
severity?
Bailey: Of some considerable force.
On Friday, 7 May, the sixth day of the
trial, Sunny Ang’s 15-year-old brother, William, was called by the prosecution
to give evidence that Sunny had taught him to scuba-dive. He had been
scuba-diving for six months and had read Sunny’s books on the subject. He said
that Sunny had warned him about the hazards.
Crown Counsel: What were the hazards
against which he warned you?
William Ang: The hazards were mainly
caused by pressure. Well, when you are diving and you are about to go up at say
from 50 feet, the pressure below is always greater than the pressure above, so
that as you go higher the air in your lungs will expand. So you must release
some of the air when you go up, or else your lungs will, with the air inside,
expand and burst your lungs. Therefore, it is very important to go up very
slowly.
The green flipper was produced and crown
counsel asked the witness if he recognized it.
William Ang: I think I do.
Crown Counsel: That was one of the two,
which you borrowed from David Benjamin Woodworth?
William Ang: I think so.
David Benjamin Woodworth, a student, was a
classmate of William Ang in 1963, and he gave evidence that he lent William two
pairs of flippers.
Crown counsel: Is that one of the green
pair you lent him?
Woodworth: Yes.
Crown Counsel: And when you lent it to
him in what condition was it?
Woodworth: I think it was in good
condition.
Crown Counsel: Was the strap burst?
Woodworth: No.
Crown Counsel: Or cut in any way?
Woodworth: No.
David Henderson, specially flown out from
England for the trial, said he was a senior aircraftsman at RAF Changi and a
member of the RAF Changi Sub-aqua Club when he dived down and found the green
flipper in the straits of Pulau Dua on 3 September 1963, a week after Jenny’s
disappearance. The boatman Yusuf and a police party were present. He went down
twice the day before.
Mr Coomaraswamy: My Lord—
His
Lordship: Just a moment, Mr Seow. Yes, Mr Coomaraswamy?
Mr Coomaraswamy: Fully conscious of any
possible repercussions that may arise by my standing up so frequently—
His Lordship: I am delighted to see the
enthusiasm with which you are conducting the defence, Mr Coomaraswamy.
Mr Coomaraswamy: I mean, I should be
regarded as an irritating counsel by you—
His Lordship: You may by your
colleagues, but certainly not by myself and my fellow brother judges.
Mr Coomaraswamy went on to complain about
the legal technicalities concerning the notice of this evidence.
Henderson continued with his evidence of the
second
because the tears came out.
Crown Counsel: Now you say he was in
tears?
Yusuf: Yes.
Crown Counsel: You saw tears: did you
hear him crying?
Yusuf: No, I did not hear him.
Crown Counsel: Those tears or water you
saw. What was the volume? How many drops? Did they flow fast and furious?
Yusuf: I merely saw tears over this
part of the face below the eyes.
His Lordship: Just a little moisture
that you saw?
Yusuf: Yes.
His Lordship: Which appeared to you to
be tears having come from the eyes?
Yusuf: Yes.
Vernon Bailey, a marine officer attached to
the Singapore Marine Department, gave evidence that the channel between the two
Sisters Islands is not very wide. The narrow channel he described as ‘something
in the nature of a funnel’.
His Lordship: A funnel between the two
reefs, is that it?
Bailey: Funnel between the two islands
and between the two reefs.
His Lordship. Which makes it a more
constricted funnel?
Bailey: It makes it a more constricted
area, the funnel. By nature of the channel between the islands the water is
almost pushed in.
His lordship: Sucked in?
Bailey: Sucked in and blown out the
other end.
His Lordship: It blows out?
Bailey: Yes, accelerates and blows out
and you get whirls and eddies which are sort of circular motions of the water,
not to be confused with a whirl, a circular motion of water.
His Lordship: Of some force, of some
severity?
Bailey: Of some considerable force.
On Friday, 7 May, the sixth day of the
trial, Sunny Ang’s 15-year-old brother, William, was called by the prosecution
to give evidence that Sunny had taught him to scuba-dive. He had been
scuba-diving for six months and had read Sunny’s books on the subject. He said
that Sunny had warned him about the hazards.
Crown Counsel: What were the hazards
against which he warned you?
William Ang: The hazards were mainly
caused by pressure. Well, when you are diving and you are about to go up at say
from 50 feet, the pressure below is always greater than the pressure above, so
that as you go higher the air in your lungs will expand. So you must release
some of the air when you go up, or else your lungs will, with the air inside,
expand and burst your lungs. Therefore, it is very important to go up very
slowly.
The green flipper was produced and crown
counsel asked the witness if he recognized it.
William Ang: I think I do.
Crown Counsel: That was one of the two,
which you borrowed from David Benjamin Woodworth?
William Ang: I think so.
David Benjamin Woodworth, a student, was a
classmate of William Ang in 1963, and he gave evidence that he lent William two
pairs of flippers.
Crown counsel: Is that one of the green
pair you lent him?
Woodworth: Yes.
Crown Counsel: And when you lent it to
him in what condition was it?
Woodworth: I think it was in good
condition.
Crown Counsel: Was the strap burst?
Woodworth: No.
Crown Counsel: Or cut in any way?
Woodworth: No.
David Henderson, specially flown out from
England for the trial, said he was a senior aircraftsman at RAF Changi and a
member of the RAF Changi Sub-aqua Club when he dived down and found the green
flipper in the straits of Pulau Dua on 3 September 1963, a week after Jenny’s
disappearance. The boatman Yusuf and a police party were present. He went down
twice the day before.
Mr Coomaraswamy: My Lord—
His
Lordship: Just a moment, Mr Seow. Yes, Mr Coomaraswamy?
Mr Coomaraswamy: Fully conscious of any
possible repercussions that may arise by my standing up so frequently—
His Lordship: I am delighted to see the
enthusiasm with which you are conducting the defence, Mr Coomaraswamy.
Mr Coomaraswamy: I mean, I should be
regarded as an irritating counsel by you—
His Lordship: You may by your
colleagues, but certainly not by myself and my fellow brother judges.
Mr Coomaraswamy went on to complain about
the legal technicalities concerning the notice of this evidence.
Henderson continued with his evidence of the
second
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