Free Cold Blooded Murders by Alex Josey Page B

did you do it and
not Jenny?
    Sunny Ang: No particular reason. I was
behind her and I did it for her.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Did she then jump into
the water?
    Sunny Ang: Yes, near the guide line.
    His Lordship: At that time had you
taken off your clothes?
    Sunny Ang: I was in my bathing costume.
    His Lordship: And you had done nothing
about your own equipment?
    Sunny Ang: I think I was getting my own
equipment ready.
    His Lordship: But you couldn’t be doing
both at the same time could you? You have told us that you assisted Jenny with
her equipment. By that time had you done anything about your own equipment? You
could not be doing both at the same time.
    Sunny Ang: No. On the way in the boat I
had the equipment ready, you see, and I was just starting to get my own
equipment ready when we anchored.
     
    He said that when Jenny surfaced she said they
were not exactly over the spot they had marked out that day, but there were
equally good coral where they were. Ang told the judge that Jenny got back into
the boat and they chatted for 20 minutes to half an hour, during which time he
got back to fixing the tanks.
    His Lordship: You were not in a hurry
to join her in the next jump apparently?
    Sunny Ang: Neither was she. What I mean
is we both got ready eventually at the same time. In fact we had both gotten
ready and she was about to go down when she told me there was not enough air
left in her tank. So I had to undo everything all over again.
     
    He changed her tank, turned on the valve and
Jenny dived into the water.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Why did she go in
first?
    Sunny Ang: It’s more or less a matter
of courtesy.
    His Lordship: That she should brave the
perils of the deep before you?
    Sunny Ang: Not exactly, my Lord, but
always ladies first.
    His Lordship: I see, even in deep
waters?
    Sunny Ang: Immediately she went down I
tried to open the air valve in my own tank. It was rather awkward. I asked
Yusuf to do it for me. He did, but there was a loud rush of air. So I asked him
to turn it off immediately.
     
    Together they took off the tank. “I soon
discovered that the cause was that the washer that should have been between the
regulator and the tank was missing.” He tried to improvise a washer, and so did
Yusuf, but was unsuccessful. He tried to make use of the washer in the first
tank Jenny used but damaged it and that was unusable.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Did you have any reason
to think that Jenny would have surfaced by now?
    Sunny Ang: No. What I mean is normally
she is a patient girl. I thought she would have waited for me down there.
    His Lordship: How long did you think
she would have waited?
    Sunny Ang: Ten to 15 minutes.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Did you have any
arrangement with her to wait for you?
    Sunny Ang: No. Before she jumped I told
her she could go down first and I would follow immediately.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Did you become
anxious?
    Sunny Ang: Not immediately. When I realized
I could not go down because of the missing washer, I signalled her to surface.
I assumed she might be at the other end of the guide line.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Did you have any
pre-arranged signal?
    Sunny Ang: Yes. Three jerks meant come
up.
     
    Two minutes later, when she had not
surfaced, and while he was still attending to his tank, he again pulled on the
guide line. “I noticed there were no air bubbles breaking on the surface of the
water.”
    Mr Coomaraswamy: What did you do?
    Sunny Ang: I was not alarmed. I thought
she might have got tired of waiting for me and may have wandered off on her
own. So I looked around and could not see any air bubbles. I then asked Yusuf
to look around too.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Did either of you see
any air bubbles?
    Sunny Ang: We did not.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: What did you do then?
    Sunny Ang: My reaction was not one of
alarm.
    His Lordship: What was your reaction?
    Sunny Ang: That she might have been
playing with me; that is she might have been directly under the boat when the
bubbles would not have been noticed; or she