PETER GEORGE CUTHBERT Statement

STATION NAME: PETER GEORGE CUTHBERT
AGE / DATE OF BIRTH: 42
10021953

Who states:- This statement consisting of 006 pages, each signed by me, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that if it is tendered in evidence I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated in it anything which I know to be false or do not believe to be true.

DATED: 121295
P G CUTHBERT (SIGNED)

I am a self employed suspended ceiling contractor and I am the owner of a company called M and A Suspended Ceiling which I run from my home address. I am the owner of a Mitsubishi Shogun motor vehicle index K2CUF. I have lived the majority of my life in the South Essex area mainly in the Basildon area and after I got married I moved to the Hadleigh area. I have lived at my current address for the past 3 years with my wife and 2 children. When I lived in Basildon I got to know a man called Pat TATE who also lived in the Basildon area. This would have been approximately 12 years ago. I did not consider Pat a friend at this stage he was just somebody who I knew from Basildon who I could say hello to.

I saw Pat very irregularly and never socialised with him. All of my adult life I have been involved in body building training and have trained in a number of gyms in and around the Basildon and Hadleigh area. About 2 years whilst I was training at the Academy Gym, London Road, Westcliff I met two men who also trained in there Tony TUCKER and Craig ROLFE. I had never met either of these men previously but I was aware of Tony TUCKER because I had heard of him in conjunction with running the bouncers at night clubs in the Southend and Basildon areas. The reasons we started to get to know each other was because Tony was intending to buy a gym and he was asking if I was interested in doing work on the ceilings.

This work never took place. But after this I started to see both Tony and Craig on a social basis which included going to clubs with them in the Basildon or Southend area. This was not an occurance that happened every week but on the odd occasion. I think it would have been in 000394, Pat TATE came out of prison and he started seeing Tony and Craig and it appeared to me that Pat and Tony were quite close. Even when Pat came out I was still training with them and also seeing them socially. During the summer this year I did some work for Tony at his new house in Fobbing where I put a suspended ceiling into gym for him. I know that during 000095 Pat TATE when back into prison for firearms offences. I can't remember exactly when it was but I think it would have been in either 000900 or 001095 Pat was released from prison.

On the night he was released a big party was arranged for him at the Dagenham Snooker Club which I attended. Also at this party was both Tony and Craig. I can't remember anything out of the ofdinary happening at this party and I believe I left about 0200 - 0300 hours. This would have been the last time I saw any of the three socially. On the 151195 I went with Tony TUCKER to Eastern Garage Car Sales, London Rd, A13, Corringham which is actually situated at The Five Bells Roundabout. I was going to buy on HP a Range Rover motor vehicle Vogue index F424NPE. Although this was my vehicle and I signed for responsibility of paying the HP it was going to be lent by me to Tony and Craig for there use. In there a General Guarantee for Finance HP form was completed by a member of staff.

This form included my details and the details of the vehicle and showing a total purchase price of ten thousand nine hundred and ninety five pounds of seven thousand eight hundred pounds was to be on finance over 36 mths paid at three hundred and twenty six pounds and seventy four pence per month. A deposit of three thousand one hundred and ninety five pounds was paid but not when I was in the garage. This HP for I can produce exhibit PGC/1. > I This HP form I received through the post towards the end of 001100 this came in an envelope with three letters from the company one of them laying out my rights. The envelope and letters I can produce exhibit PGC/2. As soon as I had completed the neccesary forms I left the garage and I did not take the Range Rover with me and I have never been in it or driven it. After this time I did not see anything of either Tony, Craig or Pat but I had spoken to Tony and Craig on the phone. Early part of the week commencing Monday 041295 I received the paying in book from the finance company.

I contacted Tony and I arranged to meet him on Wednesday 061295. The arrangement was made that I should meet Tony, Craig and Pat at the petrol garage next to the Eastern Garage, Five Bells Roundabout about midday so I would give them the paying in book. I arrived first at the garage and I had to wait a couple of minutes prior to them arriving in the Range Rover and I believe that Craig was driving. On this day I was wearing a maroon CHEVIGNON ski jacket and mustard coloured shirt - I was wearing contact lenses as I do normally rather then glasses. Craig was wearing a black SCHOTT jacket which was quilted and had a fur collar.

Pat was wearing a dark coloured leather jacket. declined the offer. We stayed at TGI FRIDAYS for approx 1 hour after which we all left in my Shogun. Whilst in the restaurant Tony either made or received a phone call on his mobile phone about his business and one of his doorman. On the way back to dropping them back to the car Tony asked me to call at 5 Diamond Close, Chafford Hundred an address where he use to live and now lets out, he said he wanted to collect some rent.

When I went there Tony got no reply. When we arrived back at the Five Bells Roundabout all four of us went into the Eastern Garage and I sat down at the back of the shop and Tony Craig and Pat went to the counter and had a conversation with the man behind the counter. I don't know what it was about or whether they paid an instalment on the HP. Our business at the Eastern Garage was finished sometime between 1500 hours - 1600 hours after which we said our goodbyes. I did not see or here from any of these three after this time.