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13315:52:511 A. It's 14 years ago.2 Q. 714 What has that got to do with it?3 A. I --4 Q. 715 You have seen the documents in front of you?15:53:015 A. I have seen the documents. I have seen the documents. But I can't imagine6 that I would be comfortable in dealing with cash like that. It's not in my7 nature.8 Q. 716 Ms. Carruth, I am sure that if you were working in a bank, if you were a bank9 official and if you were dealing with these sort of figures every day it would15:53:1910 be, it would mean nothing to you to see a document 14 years later showing a11 lodgement of 5,518 pounds?12 A. I agree.13 Q. 717 You were working as an office working for Mr. Ahern?14 A. Yes.15:53:3415 Q. 718 Isn't that right?16 A. Yes.17 Q. 719 You were making about 66 pounds a week, isn't that right?18 A. Yes.19 Q. 720 You were being paid by Willdover, a company connected with Mr. Richardson in15:53:4220 relation to that. You were handling, I suggest, these monies as evidenced by21 the fact that your signature appears on each one of the lodgement dockets,22 isn't that so?23 A. Yes.24 Q. 721 How could you forget that you are dealing with these huge sums of money?15:54:0025 A. I have no idea. I have searched and tried and tried since this has come into26 my home and I can't recall anything that significant that I dealt with it.27 Q. 722 But you accept as a probability that you did so handle it, you were in the bank28 on this day and you did handle this amount of money?29 A. Yes, I accept ...15:54:4430 Q. 723 What was your reaction, Ms. Carruth, on getting this document which you acceptPremier Captioning & Realtime Limitedwww.pcr.ie Day 839