Lawyers for the guards questioned MacPherson about whether he could have misunderstood. MacPherson, however, insisted the words had âstuck in his mindâ over the past five years and that he read the conversation as a direction. He also said that when Chapman had asked another guard about the physical status of Morrison after he had learned he was hospitalised, his tone lacked empathy. In a statement given to police earlier this month partially read out in the inquest, MacPherson had recalled that Chapman had asked, âheâs not dead is he?â and said the comment âseemed to be said in frustration of the scrutiny and paperwork that a fatality would bringâ.