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I would say B. It will be 5-9 sentences.
B, you need to give the reader basically a reason to read it so you give the hook and the topic of the sentence so basically what the story is going to be about.
If we imagine ourselves in the scene in which the witness speaks with a firm and confident voice saying "that is the man I saw", the most probable thing is that it convinces us because she is very sure of herself, the witness does not doubt it for a moment, she/he is stating it.
The word <u>averred</u> can be replaced by <u>stated</u> since they have the same meaning. Other synonims can be claim, declare or affirm.
