At last the police witness stood down and the name of Amos Gregson was called.

The appellant asked the court to conclude, from the contradictions, that the version of the police witnesses could not be accepted.

"None of the 145 civilian and police witnesses who were questioned claims to have seen or heard the decisive shot from Grams's weapon."

However, during testimony a police witness quoted a statement made by Lowis after the second arrest.

The police witnesses testified that little was ordinary or straightforward at the station house where the two celebrities were taken.

The defense lawyers struggled yesterday to undermine both police witnesses.

But the police witnesses were a bit sloppy, and one two of the victims were clearly a bit wide themselves.

According to police witnesses when the police entered the village, fire was opened on them with automatic rifles from four houses in the villages.

None of the police witnesses have said they had a clear view of the incident.

The death scene compromised in other ways, police witnesses conceded.