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principle on which Namsoh's case was decided...A ciieful
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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
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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
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