Day 263 - 14 Jun 96 - Page 53


     
     1        A.  I cannot recollect, I am afraid.
     2
     3   Q.   I am going to show you a report shortly of that meeting.
     4        Do you remember who showed you a photograph by which you
     5        were enabled to identify Mr. Morris when you went to the
     6        meeting?
     7        A.  Yes, Mr. Hartley, the managing director of Kings.
     8
     9   Q.   Was it that photograph that I have just shown you or some
    10        other photograph, do you think?
    11        A.  I am sorry, I cannot be sure.  I think it would have
    12        been a different one.  I have a feeling it was a different
    13        picture.
    14
    15   Q.   You can put away the photograph album and take back your
    16        statement.  In paragraph 6, "Dave Morris, who had
    17        previously been described to me and identified by
    18        photographs, and who arrived at 9 p.m."  So he arrived
    19        about an hour after the meeting began, did he?
    20        A.  Yes.
    21
    22   Q.   Do you remember that?
    23        A.  Yes, I do.
    24
    25   Q.   You say, "[He] spoke of the annual Mail Out by London
    26        Greenpeace to other interested groups" and so on and so
    27        forth.  You said that he -- I take it it was him --
    28        "Publicity would be given to such matters as International
    29        Anti-McDonald's Day on 16th October 1990."
    30        A.  Yes.
    31
    32   Q.   That was Mr. Morris, was it?
    33        A.  Yes.
    34
    35   Q.   You say next, "Dave Morris then suggested that members
    36        might give thought to going to Moscow on 16th October 1990
    37        to demonstrate outside the new branch of McDonald's there.
    38        He said that the cost of the trip would be a problem unless
    39        the group obtained some sponsorship.  This proposal
    40        received only moderate interest but Dave Morris continued
    41        by saying that, since Chernobyl, the Russians were becoming
    42        increasingly interested in ecological and environmental
    43        issues.  Finally he said that the international Mail Out
    44        would include the customary McDonald's Factsheet, a copy of
    45        which I append to this statement marked 'JR1'".  Are you
    46        quite certain, in your own mind, that it was Mr. Morris
    47        that said all those things?
    48        A.  Yes, I am.
    49
    50   Q.   How is it that after six years, or so, you are able to feel 
    51        sure about that? 
    52        A.  Because it was the custom of investigators working for 
    53        Kings to complete reports either the same day or the next
    54        day or as soon after as possible.  I took no notes there,
    55        but I know that I would have compiled this very shortly
    56        afterwards.
    57
    58   Q.   I will show you the report in a moment, Mr. Russell.  You
    59        go on, "The meeting then continued in relation to the Fayre
    60        and Dave Morris, by now controlling the proceedings, spoke

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