Day 267 - 21 Jun 96 - Page 29
1 Q. Did you usually take a notebook with you to the meetings?
2 A. No, I did not.
3
4 Q. You just happened to have one with you on this occasion?
5 A. I probably did not have a notebook on that occasion,
6 sir.
7
8 Q. Then you have made a note further on the next page
9 "Apparently they were requested by Hackney and Islington
10 Animal Rights to produce more antiMcDonald's leaflets but
11 the printers printed London Greenpeace on it", and then
12 "-- they now do not want the leaflets". You managed to
13 get a note of all that at the time or was that your
14 recollection then?
15 A. I probably recalled that or gleaned it from the
16 meeting and made a note of that after the meeting, sir.
17
18 Q. Well, it is carrying on from the things you managed to find
19 on the desk?
20 A. I probably would have, I would have made my notes in
21 the car following the meeting and if I had made a written
22 note of the number or bank account I would have then copied
23 that into the book.
24
25 Q. Then you go on: "I was told tonight that the BBC World
26 Service asked if London Greenpeace would partake in a live
27 debate with McDonald's over its views etc." Is that
28 "etc."?
29 A. Yes.
30
31 Q. "Paul, from LG told them, yes. McDonald's represents told
32 BBC no. LG now plan to try and get on the BBC World
33 Service."
34 A. On its own.
35
36 Q. "On its own. If not they will still advertise and use this
37 info as victory literature over McDonald's. They treat
38 this as a great moral victory and will not let it go/die
39 down." That was Mr. Gravett who was talking this, was it
40 not? He was the one that was talking about going on the
41 radio interview?
42 A. I cannot recall but it may have been, yes.
43
44 Q. Right. Well, it says Paul from London Greenpeace told
45 them, yes, he would speak to them?
46 A. It would appear it was Paul.
47
48 Q. Then you have written, "Certain members in the group think
49 that McDonald's refusal is 'lucky' because if McDonald's
50 said yes they may with true facts and figures made by LG"?
51 A. "True facts and figures, made LG".
52
53 Q. "Made LG look shitty. LG admitted not having any sources
54 for backing up most of their points in the leaflets." Are
55 you seriously saying that somebody at the meeting said: "We
56 haven't got anything to back up this leaflet at all" or "We
57 have not got hardly anything to back up this leaflet at
58 all"?
59 A. Somebody would have said something along those lines,
60 yes.
