Day 306 - 26 Nov 96 - Page 30
1 remember it, "because it would have surprised me, because I
2 knew you had been long enough in the group to know that we
3 did not hand out fact sheets on demonstrations. I would
4 have gone up to you and asked you why you were doing it."
5 So, I think that is worth bearing in mind, the fact that it
6 had been a longstanding practice of the group and would
7 have made it something unusual if it was going on,
8 therefore it would have been noticed by people that were
9 involved with the group in any way.
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11 The other thing that is relevant is that on day 272,
12 page 35, Mr. Gravett referred to the Big Mac attack
13 leaflet, which was in tab 47 of pink one A, I think. He
14 said that it had been written for the 1989 mail-out and
15 that it said 'Do not request large quantities of the fact
16 sheet as we do not have many ourselves'. And Mr. Gravett
17 said that this was true, that there weren't many copies of
18 the fact sheet. That was page 36, line 1.
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20 I would just point out that it is therefore hardly likely
21 that it would be being distributed at the head office
22 picket if there weren't many copies left, because if
23 Mr. Gravett did not bring them in and other people were not
24 able to obtain large quantities of the fact sheet, I think
25 it refers to two or three you could get at most or
26 something like that, but if other people could not get the
27 copies of the fact sheet in bulk either, then they are
28 hardly going to be bringing them along to the picket of the
29 head office, and that if there were any fact sheets there
30 it would be the Veggies ones which were available in bulk
31 from Veggies and always have been advertised in that
32 manner, which we did hear evidence on in relation to that
33 from Mr. Smith.
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35 Just to briefly cover a couple of other points from
36 Mr. Gravett's evidence, that on day 272, page 33, line 50,
37 he referred to the leaflet in tab 18, pink 1A, which said
38 that the picket of McDonald's head office on 16th October
39 1987 was to be from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., and Mr. Gravett's
40 evidence was that to the best of his knowledge there was no
41 picket on that date because nobody could get there. It was
42 the day of the hurricane -- early in the morning there was
43 no transport. That he certainly had not gone there and
44 that he had attended other pickets on 16th October in
45 central London and that nobody had reported having attended
46 the head office pickets. So he did not believe it was
47 likely it took place.
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49 Now, Mr. Rampton tried to... I mean, obviously, in theory
50 that is hearsay, but in reality it is actually evidence
51 that you can take notice of, because bearing in mind that
52 this was a picket to be organised by London Greenpeace, if
53 there had been a picket it would have been reported on at a
54 London Greenpeace meeting. So the fact that it was not
55 reported at the meeting, and that people said that they had
56 not been able to get there, is a strong indication that
57 there was no London Greenpeace picket on that day.
58 Obviously, it does not mean that some other complete
59 strangers could not have turned up, but that was not the
60 evidence of Mr. Nicholson. He said that it was a London
