Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 36
1 A. Yes.
2
3 Q. Then look at--
4 A. When I attended the pickets.
5
6 Q. Yes?
7 A. In October in October on World Day.
8
9 Q. And also the fayre on 21st?
10 A. Well, I do not -- I mean, I don't think that that --
11 well, I mean, as you say, 2,000 people attended the fayre,
12 does that mean that they are all involved in the
13 anti-McDonald's campaign?
14
15 Q. No, but they weren't taking part in organising it were
16 they?
17 A. Neither was I.
18
19 Q. You did not do anything, you just wandered round did you?
20 A. No, I was in the creche for a while and I helped clear
21 up at the end, but I did not help organise it.
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23 Q. Well, you were by then a staunch and regular member of the
24 group, it is hardly surprising is it?
25 A. I don't know about a staunch member. I was a regular
26 attender of the meetings.
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28 Q. Yes, you knew all the people. Much of the same people were
29 still around in October 1989 as has been there at the
30 beginning; you were all friends weren't you?
31 A. I was friends with most of the people in the group.
32
33 Q. Look, please, at interrogatory 7: "Did you not visit the
34 said offices regularly in 1989 and/or 1990?" And your
35 answer, "Sometimes". That was not a true answer was it?
36 A. It was. I remember this interrogatory at the time and
37 I was thinking 'what does regularly mean' because it could
38 be taken to mean every day, so that was why I put
39 "sometimes".
40
41 Q. Well, you knew that the meetings were weekly meetings, Miss
42 Steel did not you?
43 A. Yes, but it does not say "Did you go to the meetings".
44
45 Q. And regular attendance would be, let us say, one meeting
46 every two, two meetings out of every three. That is
47 ordinary English, is it not, and that was you was it not?
48 A. If you asked me now and I had not seen the private
49 investigators notes I wouldn't actually have a clue about
50 how many meetings I had attended during 1989/1990. Having
51 seen the investigator's notes, you know, I would say, yes,
52 I was attending regularly.
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54 MR. RAMPTON: For you, Miss Steel, throughout '88, '89 and '90
55 this was a regular part of your weekly life, was it not,
56 apart from when you were on holiday. It was part of your
57 routine was it not?
58 A. I don't know if I would go as far as routine. Well, I
59 mean, yes, from seeing the notes, yes, I was attending the
60 meetings on a regular basis.
