Day 272 - 02 Jul 96 - Page 71
1 appropriate for you to represent the London Greenpeace
2 group as the speaker at a Hackney & Islington Animal Rights
3 Group on the theme anti-McDonald's?
4 A. Because it was near the World Day of Action against
5 McDonald's. I knew about McDonald's and went along to
6 speak. I would not have gone along and had it -- under --
7 speaking under the name of Paul Gravett.
8
9 Q. Why?
10 A. Well, no one, you know, puts their own names on things
11 like that, on public display.
12
13 Q. This, Mr. Gravett, is the point?
14 A. Yes.
15
16 Q. This, Mr. Gravett, is a feature of London Greenpeace's
17 continuing concern with McDonald's, is it not?
18 A. Well, if I was going along to speak at meetings every
19 month of the year, up and down the country on behalf of
20 London Greenpeace, I would call it a continuing feature.
21 But, in fact, I only did two of these meetings and they
22 were a year apart.
23
24 Q. Mr. Gravett, this idea that you--
25 A. Of course I was interested in the anti-McDonald's
26 campaign; I am not saying that.
27
28 Q. Yes and so must the members of the group would have been
29 otherwise you would not have bothered to have mentioned it,
30 would you?
31 A. No.
32
33 Q. No. That is right. Mr. Gravett, this idea that you should
34 speak as representative of London Greenpeace against
35 McDonald's at a meeting of some other group, that was not
36 prompted by any of the inquiry agents, was it? It was your
37 idea, was it not?
38 A. Yes, my idea. My idea and my idea alone.
39
40 Q. And you announced it at the meeting in the belief that
41 there might be other members of London Greenpeace who might
42 go along and hear what you have to say?
43 A. I think it was less that, than I just wanted people to
44 know what I was doing.
45
46 Q. And if anybody had thought -- you say they spoke up if you
47 disagreed. If anybody had thought, well, it was a very bad
48 idea he should represent us on another group on an
49 anti-McDonald's theme, they would have said so, would they
50 not?
51 A. Yes, they may have done.
52
53 Q. While you have got those notes out and so you shall not
54 need to get them out again, can you turn back to the notes
55 of the 19th July, 1990 which will start on page 20. At the
56 bottom of the page you should find a handwritten 20?
57 A. Yes.
58
59 Q. Now I do not think that you -- yes you were. You were at
60 this meeting, or so it is said, on the 19th July and so was
