Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you're given a statement, and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence clearly disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3' corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.

Statement: He is endeavouring to make out that there is quite as much evidence against Lawrence as against John "and I am not at all sure that he will not succeed." Detective-inspector Japp was the first witness called when the trial was reopened, and gave his evidence succinctly and briefly. Choices: 1. He was trying to persuade the jury that there is an equal amount of evidence against Lawrence as against John. 2. There was no evidence against either John or Lawrence. 3. He believed that both John and Lawrence were guilty.
2