Day 305 - 25 Nov 96 - Page 30
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2 So, I would say from that that it is clear that no weight
3 could be given to the assertion in his statement that I had
4 participated in the discussion. I mean, you could say that
5 even if I had participated in the discussion, so what? It
6 is not a reference to the fact sheet.
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8 Then, going on to paragraphs 12 to 16 of his first
9 statement, this relates to the meeting of
10 25th January 1990, which was to discuss the future of the
11 group. He refers to arguments against the focus on
12 McDonald's, and he said that both myself and Mr. Morris
13 participated. I think that, again, with this, you should
14 look at the notes. There is absolutely no reference to any
15 contribution from myself in the notes on page 68. So,
16 again, it must be an assumption on his part that I took
17 part in the discussion. If I did take part in the
18 discussion, there is no record of what my position was,
19 whether or not I was against the focus on McDonald's or for
20 it, or whatever. There is just no record of any
21 contribution from me. When we cross-examined him about
22 this on day 261, page 23, line 52, he said that he could
23 not recall what my contribution would have been.
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25 In his second statement, paragraph 21 -- this is about
26 7th June 1990 -- it refers to me answering letters that
27 have been sent into the group before -- actually, it just
28 refers to me answering letters, I think, before the meeting
29 started; yes, it just refers to me answering letters. The
30 point is that there is no note in his statement of which
31 letters were being answered, there is no evidence that they
32 were even to the group or that they might have been
33 personal letters, and there is no mention of any leaflets
34 being included in the answers. Therefore, this is
35 completely irrelevant with regard to any evidence of
36 distribution of the fact sheet.
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38 In fact, in the whole of Mr. Pocklington's evidence,
39 despite the fact that he attended at least 26 meetings or
40 events of London Greenpeace over the course of, I think,
41 about nine months, there is not a single mention anywhere
42 of me agreeing to any use of the fact sheet or stating that
43 I distributed it or of me encouraging other people to use
44 it.
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46 Going on to Mr. Bishop, from his first statement
47 paragraph 5, which is about the meeting of 2nd August 1990,
48 he said that the meeting commenced with the lead persons in
49 the group -- which, he said, were Mr. Morris, Mr. Gravett
50 and myself -- commenting on letters we had received in the
51 preceding week, since the preceding meeting. But if you
52 look at his notes relating to this date, on page 162 of the
53 notes bundle, there is no mention in there of the three of
54 us commenting on letters. The only reference is to Dave
55 asking him to answer a letter from West Germany. How can
56 he possibly remember three years later who read out which
57 letters at each meeting? That is particularly so, since
58 there is no note of what the letter said at the time and,
59 therefore, they cannot have been ones which were
60 significant and might, as a consequence, be memorable. If
