Day 001 - 28 Jun 94 - Page 15
1 repeated in one form or another on an unprecedented
scale.
2
My Lord we have compiled -- I do not ask your Lordship to
3 look at it now -- a bundle of various media reports to
which I have referred dating from 1989 and early 1990.
4 I will show those documents to your Lordship during the
course of the case. One instance that your Lordship may
5 remember from earlier stages in this case is the
Bournemouth Advertiser of 12th October 1989, four days
6 before the demonstration, in whose article was included a
reproduction of the front page of this very leaflet. That
7 is just one example; there are many others.
8 My Lord, as it happened, by the time of 16th October, the
demonstration in 1989, the second plaintiffs were
9 prepared. They made careful observations of the
demonstration. They took photographs. They obtained
10 copies of a leaflet from the demonstrators. They had also
by this time learned the identities of at least two of the
11 members of the group, a Mr. Paul Gravett and the defendant
in this case, Miss Helen Steel, though at that date they
12 believed her name was Webster; that was not so, it is
Helen Steel.
13
These two people, called Gravett and Steel, were seen to
14 be taking part in the demonstration and were
photographed. My Lord, there is a selection of the
15 photographs in the second trial bundle, II, section B5.
I would ask your Lordship to look at that because I would
16 like to draw your Lordship's attention to photographs
which show Miss Steel. It is a pink spine. It is a thin
17 folder like that.
18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you can give me the colour and volume
number? I have it now, but in the future if you could
19 give me the colour?
20 MR. RAMPTON: It is pink volume 2, tab 5. Thanks to modern
technology, it has been possible to reproduce the
21 photographs in colour. There are, I think, 15 pages of
photographs. Each of the photographs is numbered. They
22 are usually two to a page. Miss Steel appears, as your
Lordship will see -- the number of the photograph is at
23 the side of the page -- on page 1, photograph No. 2. She
is just over the left shoulder of the person wearing a
24 ballet skirt and spotted tights. Your Lordship will see
she is wearing blue jeans and dark bomber jacket. She is
25 holding a dark banner with the word "Greenpeace" written
on it.
26
Her next appearance is in photograph 15 which is on page
27 8. But before that, I would like to draw your Lordship's
attention to page 7. There is a single photograph on it,
28 photograph No. 13, of a somewhat hirsute gentleman with
orange coloured hair -- not ronald mcdonald -- standing in
29 front of the McDonald's logo at their offices, holding a
banner which has a coloured version of the front of the
30 leaflet on it, a nice picture of some food, McDonald's
logo at the bottom and these words:
