Well-known WA mining entrepreneur Peter Bartlett has told the District Court trial of his former "protégé" that he was in "shock", "stunned" and "broken" when he was accused of gold stealing and that he repeatedly "begged" him to change his police statement.
Patrick Ryhan Keogh, 42, the former general manager of gold miner FMR Investments, is one of five people on trial over the alleged theft of gold-bearing ore from the company's Greenfields Mill near Coolgardie.