Day 272 - 02 Jul 96 - Page 70
1 this? It is only right that I should. You have looked
2 at these notes. Mrs. Tiller said so far as she is
3 concerned that is accurate. Have you had a chance to
4 decide whether, broadly speaking, what she has written in
5 these notes are in accordance with your recollection, or is
6 that not a fayre question? Have you not had time to think
7 about it?
8 A. Well, to be fair, I do not think I have seen the notes
9 in this form before.
10
11 Q. Just look at this one little passage and I will not ask you
12 about the generality. It is on page 26 and it is the last
13 paragraph but one?
14 A. Yes.
15
16 Q. What she has written is this. "Forthcoming events were
17 raised on the agenda and Paul seemed to be quite enthused
18 at the prospect. Advised all present that there was to be
19 a public meeting of the Hackney & Islington Animal Rights
20 Campaign on the evening of Monday 1st October on the
21 subject of McDonald's; "everything they do not want you to
22 know," and he was to be the guest speaker as representative
23 of subject group, London Greenpeace." Now, do you believe
24 that that is an accurate account of what you said on that
25 occasion?
26 A. Well, I have no memory of it but it could well be,
27 yes; possibly.
28
29 Q. Well then, my question is what would be the point -- well
30 there are two questions. First of all, what is the point
31 of announcing this at a London Greenpeace meeting. It is
32 not a Hackney and Islington Animal Rights meeting. It is a
33 London Greenpeace meeting. What is the point of announcing
34 that event at that meeting?
35 A. What was the point?
36
37 Q. Yes?
38 A. Well because I was going to speak there on behalf of
39 London Greenpeace.
40
41 Q. On an anti-McDonald's theme?
42 A. Yes. It is also worth pointing out though that other
43 Hackney and Islington events were regularly announced in
44 the forthcoming events of London Greenpeace meetings.
45
46 Q. I have no dispute with you about that at all, Mr. Gravett.
47 There were other people in the group as interested in
48 animal rights as you were?
49 A. Yes.
50
51 Q. Ms. Steel and Miss Lapport amongst them?
52 A. Not Helen Steel.
53
54 Q. Not interested in animal rights?
55 A. I did not say that. You said "as interested as I was,"
56 you said; as interested as I was. Helen Steel was not part
57 of Hackney & Islington Animal Rights.
58
59 Q. I am not suggesting whether she was or was not. It is no
60 concern of mine, but my question is this. Why would it be
