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There's no doubt that we were poisoned and this confirmed it for me. Eon Edgar,
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we were having at a dinner for something a tiger sportsman of the year or something like that in Deneden and he
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had just come back from the UK. This is after the World Cup. He said the word in
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financial circles in London is that the bookies arranged for your food poisoning. The New Zealand Rugby Union
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weren't prepared to do anything about it. Richie Guy was chairman and I understood the reasons. My wife was
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South African, so we hired a private detective over there ourselves. The end result of that was there was a waitress
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that was employed on the Wednesday. After Thursday, she just disappeared completely. It could have been a
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chemical thing, but there was an argument that it was probably a biological wild plant in South Africa.
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I've forgotten the name of it. If it's put in with your tea leaves and that
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sort of thing, it it can lead to this sort of poisoning, food poisoning. He said she had a name like Suki, Syi,
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Suzie, something like that. Now, I was silly enough to mention that to Bob when he wrote this book. And so that's where
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the Suzie came