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     1        anything to hide.  So, it was just left there, but we were,
     2        you know, a bit suspicious about some people, and I think
     3        that is probably what happened with Mr. Bishop.  He was not
     4        exactly kind of run-of-the-mill in terms of the sort of
     5        people that turned up at Greenpeace meetings because of his
     6        age and because of, I don't know, just his demeanour, I
     7        suppose, I don't know really.
     8
     9             The next one that I wanted to refer to is page 139.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  14th June?
    12        A.  Yes.  This is the notes of Alan Clare of 14th June
    13        1990.  He say that I was present at the meeting and he goes
    14        on to say that the meeting finished reasonably early
    15        because Mr. Gravett and myself were going for a drink with
    16        friends.  This is completely untrue.  I was not at this
    17        meeting.  I was on Barra in the outer Hebrides, and if I
    18        can just refer to the postcard that was sent while I was on
    19        holiday on Barra, it is dated 18th June 1990, and the first
    20        part is not actually written by me.
    21
    22             It says, "Barra sure is all you described" and then I
    23        blanked out the name of the person it was sent to because
    24        it is completely irrelevant.  "It has been a great week or
    25        so, a much needed escape from London", and I will not read
    26        out all the rest of it, but I will not read out all my
    27        spelling mistakes either.  I refer to various things that
    28        we have been doing over the past week, and then I also
    29        refer to an intention to sit up Ben Haeval for sunrise on
    30        21st, which obviously is the longest day, and it is my
    31        recollection that I had gone away -- well, I was away for
    32        about two weeks, so over that period, and had gone away
    33        about a week before this postcard was written.  I think it
    34        was the 11th that I actually got the ferry over to Barra.
    35
    36             Going on to the notes of Mr. Bishop on page 149, which
    37        is the 16th June 1990.  I was not at this event but I just
    38        wanted to point out that where he refers to, in the middle
    39        paragraph, talking about the organisers of the march, "one
    40        of these, Andrew Clarke, talked to Paul".  Then he says in
    41        brackets "Andrew Clarke later turned out to be the Charlie
    42        previously referred to", just obviously Charlie and Andrew
    43        Clarke are two different people and Andrew has never been
    44        known as Charlie and Charlie has never been known as
    45        Andrew.  So that is a clear misunderstanding or mistake by
    46        Mr. Bishop.
    47
    48             The next one that I wanted to refer to are the notes
    49        of Frances Tiller of 29th June 1990.  I think it is page
    50        153B, but I might be wrong.  I am not sure which ones come
    51        first, whether it is the notes or the agency report.
    52
    53   Q.   Well, I have the report at 154A, and I have the notes at
    54        154E?
    55        A.  I have got 153 for some reason.
    56
    57   Q.   I may be wrong, but it is somewhere in that region.
    58
    59   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, my report begins at 154A and runs through
    60        to 154, 'D' for Donald.

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