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1. In the early hours of one morning in March this year a police patrol stopped a private car for lack of proper rear lights. The appellant was a passenger in that car. He had been involved in a small incident with the same patrol just prior to the stopping and this may have influenced his later conduct, but the facts of that incident are not relevant to this appeal. One constable left the police patrol car to interview the driver of the private car who was the cousin of the defendant. The cousi