Statement of Dr H White, BSc, MB ChB, FRC.Path, DMJ(Path)

Age if under 21: Over 21

This statement, consisting of 2 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 the 23rd day of March 1999.

Re: Paul David PAGINTON

My name is Hugh WHITE and I am a Consultant Histopathologist at Southmead Hospital in Bristol and currently Home Office Pathologist for Avon and Somerset. At 11.30 am on Wednesday, 17th February 1999, at the request of Mr Michael O'Connell, Leo Abse & Cohen Solicitors, I attended at Southmead Hospital Mortuary with Dr Keith Borer, Consulting Chemist and Forensic Scientist. Dr James, the Prosecution Pathologist, had also been invited but was unable to attend. Dr Borer had brought a full scale model of the broken kitchen window at No 8 Cormorant Way which he told me had been constructed with the relevant measurements and using the information Provided by a number of photographs. He had made the assumption that the glass shard JAW4 was still attached to the frame. With the assistance of Mrs Helen Newell and Miss Michelle Lancaster, the Mortuary Technicians, and Mrs A. R. Borer who took the photographs, we carried out a series of tests to ascertain whether Mr Thompson's neck injury could have occurred while his head was protruding through the broken window. Dr Borer had been informed that the Defence Pathologist, Dr White, had stated at the trial that the wound to the neck could have been caused by a straight impact against the shard JAW4 while it was still in the window frame. I informed him that I had not been at the trial, had made no such statement and that in any case such an impact would not have given the angled wound shown extending across the neck into the upper part of the left side of the chest.