Day 001 - 28 Jun 94 - Page 15


     
     1        repeated in one form or another on an unprecedented
              scale.
     2
              My Lord we have compiled -- I do not ask your Lordship to
     3        look at it now -- a bundle of various media reports to
              which I have referred dating from 1989 and early 1990.
     4        I will show those documents to your Lordship during the
              course of the case.  One instance that your Lordship may
     5        remember from earlier stages in this case is the
              Bournemouth Advertiser of 12th October 1989, four days
     6        before the demonstration, in whose article was included a
              reproduction of the front page of this very leaflet.  That
     7        is just one example; there are many others.
 
     8        My Lord, as it happened, by the time of 16th October, the
              demonstration in 1989, the second plaintiffs were
     9        prepared.  They made careful observations of the
              demonstration.  They took photographs.  They obtained
    10        copies of a leaflet from the demonstrators.  They had also
              by this time learned the identities of at least two of the
    11        members of the group, a Mr. Paul Gravett and the defendant
              in this case, Miss Helen Steel, though at that date they
    12        believed her name was Webster; that was not so, it is
              Helen Steel.
    13
              These two people, called Gravett and Steel, were seen to
    14        be taking part in the demonstration and were
              photographed.  My Lord, there is a selection of the
    15        photographs in the second trial bundle, II, section B5.
              I would ask your Lordship to look at that because I would
    16        like to draw your Lordship's attention to photographs
              which show Miss Steel.  It is a pink spine.  It is a thin
    17        folder like that.
 
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you can give me the colour and volume
              number?  I have it now, but in the future if you could
    19        give me the colour?
 
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  It is pink volume 2, tab 5.  Thanks to modern
              technology, it has been possible to reproduce the
    21        photographs in colour.  There are, I think, 15 pages of
              photographs.  Each of the photographs is numbered.  They
    22        are usually two to a page.  Miss Steel appears, as your
              Lordship will see -- the number of the photograph is at
    23        the side of the page -- on page 1, photograph No. 2.  She
              is just over the left shoulder of the person wearing a
    24        ballet skirt and spotted tights.  Your Lordship will see
              she is wearing blue jeans and dark bomber jacket.  She is
    25        holding a dark banner with the word "Greenpeace" written
              on it. 
    26 
              Her next appearance is in photograph 15 which is on page 
    27        8.  But before that, I would like to draw your Lordship's
              attention to page 7.  There is a single photograph on it,
    28        photograph No. 13, of a somewhat hirsute gentleman with
              orange coloured hair -- not ronald mcdonald -- standing in
    29        front of the McDonald's logo at their offices, holding a
              banner which has a coloured version of the front of the
    30        leaflet on it, a nice picture of some food, McDonald's
              logo at the bottom and these words:

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