Day 276 - 09 Jul 96 - Page 24
1 A. Yes. If I just say, in the third statement of Alan
2 Clare, paragraph 6, just to say that he later said that he
3 had observed that the drawers was in fact marked McDonald's
4 -- MuckDonalds -- just to say that there was never, in all
5 the time I have been to Caledonian Road, there has never
6 been a draw marked 'Mcnasty'.
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8 Just going to the photographs behind Mr. Claire's
9 statement, in photograph No. 5. I mean, obviously, there
10 are various posters all over the place, but just to point
11 out that the kind of yellowish poster that is by the edge
12 of the door, not the main door, the--
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14 Q. Yes?
15 A. The door through to the other room, that is level with
16 the Yale latch, or whatever you want to call it, that
17 poster is an IMF poster. It is actually IMF World Bank
18 Funding Global Oppression and Starvation. Just to make the
19 point that obviously it was not a new campaign, and the
20 photograph was actually taken on a previous IMF
21 demonstration. The other one is in photograph 7. That
22 drawer 1 was urgent letters, drawer 2 was McDonald's
23 inquiries, drawer 3 was the not so urgent general, other
24 inquiries by IMF about the borders campaign, about all the
25 other things. And then the fourth was one for answered
26 letters. His key is incorrect, because he says that there
27 is one drawer for letters regarding McDonald's then another
28 one -- sorry, he says there is one drawer for letters
29 regarding McDonald's which need to be answered by people
30 like Paul or Andrew, and there is another one about
31 McDonald's in general. There was only one McDonald's
32 drawer.
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34 What happened was that letters that were complicated
35 would just be left at the bottom of the drawer for
36 Mr. Gravett to deal with when he came in and that in
37 photograph No. 9, as I think it was Miss Laporte said, or
38 Mr. Gravett, I cannot remember, there was a box which was
39 used for stores which had a wide variety of leaflets in it.
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41 Q. There was a box what?
42 A. The McDonald's fact sheets box was the box that was
43 used for stores. It was not full of McDonald's
44 fact sheets, it was full of a variety of the different
45 leaflets which the group had which would be taken to stalls
46 and it would have a collecting tin in it as well and
47 probably the group's banner used to get kept in there some
48 of the time as well. It was basically because the group
49 reused, you know, everything that came into the office, so
50 just to make use of an odd box. And where the other label
51 is on No. 7, which says "anti-McDonald's leaflets
52 fact sheets", there would not have been the fact sheets
53 because they were not, there would not have been hardly any
54 left by this stage, and in fact I think they may have been
55 the aims and objectives leaflets, because there was always
56 an over-abundance of them knocking around for some reason.
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58 Yes, in the key to photograph 10, in the key there is
59 a No. 10 on the drawer, the international reference drawer,
60 and it is labelled as the "anti-McDonald's international
