13 principle on which Namsoh's case was decided...A ciieful i] look at Namsoh's case shows that specially prepared questions were oppressive on the accused in the sense that they were meant to sap and indeed sapped the free will of the accused person and thus rendered the ensuing statement involuntary. . . The mere assertion by PWl, that in the cogrse of recording the statement of the Responden! he asked question and recorded the answers, does not ipso facto render the statement involuntary." The Defendant has not shown any oppressive question asked him, suffrcient to sap his will and the fact that "PW2" asked him several introductory questions about himself, does not render "TWTl,' involuntary, especially as the Defendant did the recording in his own hand. As for the Defendant's statements "Twr3"-Twr6", the evidence of the Defendant, which I believe and accept, is that whenever he made any payment , he was given a sheet of paper to make a statement to cover the payment. It should be obvious that there being no necessity on the part of the Defendant to make such statement he did not make them on his own volition, but at the behest or prompting of the .spWr2', and other offlcers who obtained tllem from him. A paymont by the Defendant to the Cooperative Society does.not necessitate him making further statements admitting owing, stealing 0r emb ezzhngmgney of the n:a;#$ ,';Sffi*ffi "L \-65f; ff ti ffi:ir.:

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