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1. There were five grounds of appeal filed but at the hearing Counsel for the appellant abandoned the first two. These were that the Magistrate should not have allowed the prosecutor to put to the appellant when he gave evidence certain statements which the appellant had made to officers of the Complaints Against the Police Office (CAPO). Counsel conceded, and I think quite rightly, that statements which by their very nature must be voluntary can be used to challenge the credit of a defendant if