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1 name Webster.
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3 Q. But on the basis of that information you decided to take
4 out the writ in the name of Webster instead of the name of
5 Steel?
6 A. No, I did not, the lawyers did.
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8 Q. Was that all they told you?
9 A. Well, I mean, they told me they were not particularly
10 interested in London Greenpeace. They regarded you as a
11 small organisation of very little importance. What they
12 were interested in was the possible connections with the
13 animal liberation groups, and they did not indicate either
14 of you two were involved in that.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you keep your voice up, please?
17 A. Sorry, they did not indicate ----
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment.
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21 MS. STEEL: So, they were interested in?
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, that was the whole of your... Were you
24 going to say more; you said they did not indicate...?
25 A. They did not indicate that either Gravett or Ms. Steel
26 were involved in the Animal Liberation Front. They said
27 there were associations between the group and Animal
28 Liberation.
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30 MS. STEEL: So they had a general interest in, sort of, animal
31 rights groups and people campaigning?
32 A. I mean, they are an intelligence gathering
33 organisation.
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35 Q. About the animal rights in general?
36 A. About animal liberation groups generally, yes.
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38 Q. Right.
39 A. What they wanted was -- going back to the word
40 -- a perch from which they could observe the people in the
41 group.
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43 Q. After that time, there were then four weeks between that
44 and the picket?
45 A. Yes.
46
47 Q. Was it the same Special Branch officers that attended the
48 picket?
49 A. I only saw one again; that was the one that was in the
50 control group.
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52 Q. How many came the four weeks before the protest?
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I make sure? Are we still on October '89
55 now?
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57 MS. STEEL: Yes.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We have gone...
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