If you do a walkround and miss the gear pins you cannot possibly have done your check correctly. Can you imagine what would happen if we did that.
The person in question is a coward and a cheat because in normal circumstances making a mistake is not a hanging offence - we all make them and should have the guts to own up so that others may learn. His co-cowards are covering up for him and it simply shows the calibre of the whole lot of them.
Cowardly dishonourable bullies.....
Good luck with your court case Darby.