Day 270 - 28 Jun 96 - Page 22
1 way. You know, what more can I say? Certainly it was a
2 pacifist organisation, I would say, that was my impression.
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4 MS. STEEL: I think we are actually now going to 20th September
5 which is the last meeting that you attended.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, we have had one or two pauses this
8 morning, and so unless the stenographer specifically asks,
9 we will carry on until 1 o'clock. Yes.
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11 MS. STEEL: This was the day before the writs were served and
12 you said in your statement that you were told you did not
13 need to attend after the writs had been served?
14 A. That is correct, yes.
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16 Q. "As instructed, at 6 p.m. I arrived at the office for a
17 briefing before proceedings together with Michelle Hooker
18 to 5 Caledonian Road where we arrived just before 8 p.m. We
19 pushed the bell of the intercom system several times but
20 nobody answered it and it was a few minutes before the door
21 was opened by BB."
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23 Who is BB?
24 A. Brian Bishop.
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26 Q. He is one of the private investigators. You knew that he
27 was a private investigator at this time, Mr. Bishop, did
28 you?
29 A. Yes.
30
31 Q. Presumably that is why you put his initials rather than
32 whatever name it was that he gave at the meetings?
33 A. Yes.
34
35 Q. So at this meeting there were three private investigators
36 that you were aware of?
37 A. Yes.
38
39 Q. "We went upstairs to the office on the first floor where we
40 found to be already present Dave Morris, Charlie, Helen,
41 John and Paul Gravett, all engaged in folding leaflets and
42 putting them into envelopes for a "mail out". We joined in
43 this operation and the atmosphere was quite relaxed for
44 some time."
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46 And so on. Talking about the mail out, the fourth
47 paragraph says that:
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49 "During this operation Paul said that there was one leaflet
50 that had been left out. Charlie asked which one and was
51 told that it was the McDonald's leaflet. Charlie said "oh,
52 that's not all that important" or words to that effect."
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54 If somebody had said "it is important, we must put it in",
55 and then had got copies of the leaflet and started putting
56 them in the mail out, would you have made a note of that?
57 A. Yes, definitely.
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59 Q. Just another question on the mail out. In the notes of
60 Michelle Hooker for this date.... I do not know whether
