Day 305 - 25 Nov 96 - Page 32
1 basically already said their piece when they were preparing
2 the list.
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4 The same thing is repeated in paragraph 8 of his first
5 statement, where he says that Mr. Gravett, Mr. Morris and
6 myself spent some time discussing the design of the leaflet
7 for the fair; and he then refers to: "The three main
8 participants Mr. Morris, Ms. Steel and Mr. Gravett
9 discussed whether 'incorporating the anti-McDonald's fair'
10 should be within a star or a circle." Again, this was not
11 mentioned in his notes at all; and if it was not
12 significant enough to be noted at the time, why should he
13 remember it three years later?
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15 So, really, to sum up that part of his evidence or his
16 statement in relation to that meeting, he makes four
17 references to me being a lead person, a main participant or
18 most vociferous in relation to that meeting, and yet the
19 only mention of my name in the notes that he made at the
20 time is to say that I was present at the meeting. There is
21 no record of me having made any comment at all. Since
22 I was one of the people he had been told to look out for,
23 if I had said anything significant he would have made a
24 note of it.
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26 Also at that meeting, in paragraph 9.1 of his first
27 statement he refers to the picket of Seven Sisters
28 McDonald's being passed on to other members of the group by
29 'phone. In his notes on page 163 he recorded that Jane
30 was organising the picket; but when he was cross-examined
31 on day 260, page 51, line 55, he agreed that he did not
32 know who was organising the picket. Therefore, there is no
33 evidence that I was involved in organising the picket or
34 taking any part in the picket. But, on top of that, even
35 if there was evidence, there is no mention of the
36 fact sheet or that the fact sheet was going to be
37 distributed on that date. So, that is really another red
38 herring. In fact, we heard evidence from Mr. Gravett and
39 Ms. Laporte that that was a picket organised by Hackney and
40 Islington Animal Rights, and it was being brought up under
41 the "coming events" section of the London Greenpeace
42 meeting, where any coming events could be brought up, not
43 just ones organised by London Greenpeace.
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45 In paragraph 12 of his first statement, Mr. Bishop said
46 that "What's wrong with McDonald's?" leaflets were kept in
47 boxes at the side of the room; and that was in his
48 statement relating to the same meeting. However, there is
49 no mention of this in his notes of 2nd August 1990; and
50 although the leaflet appended to Mr. Bishop's statement is
51 the fact sheet, the statement itself just says "'What's is
52 wrong with McDonald's?' leaflet", which is also the title
53 of the short leaflet. In fact, on day 261, page 30,
54 line 29, Mr. Bishop accepted that it would be the shorter
55 leaflets in the boxes.
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57 He referred in that paragraph of the statement to the
58 fact sheet being out of stock sometimes, which, by that
59 time, from the evidence of Mr. Gravett, it would have
60 been. He also referred to the fact sheet being kept in the
