Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 75
1 Q. These actual statements were, therefore, not written from
2 memory; is that right?
3 A. No.
4
5 Q. Now, if we can start, please, with the last statement
6 because I am not going to be asking you very many
7 questions, Mr. Bishop, but I am going to try and keep it
8 chronological, if I can. According to this last statement,
9 number 8D, which was the one you made recently, last month,
10 the third paragraph, yes?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. You say, "In early May 1990 I was asked by the director of
14 an inquiry firm which instructed me to attend a
15 London Greenpeace meeting due to be held at 5 Caledonian
16 Road on 17th May", and, as we see from reading the rest of
17 that paragraph, you did actually go to that meeting?
18 A. I did.
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20 Q. Was that the first meeting that you went to?
21 A. Yes, it was.
22
23 Q. What was the firm that instructed you, the name of the
24 firm?
25 A. It was Kings Investigation.
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27 Q. Kings. If we go then backwards -- I am sorry about this --
28 in the file to 8B and the last page of 8B, which has a
29 paragraph 9 on it.
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31 MS. STEEL: I have not got As, Bs and Cs.
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33 MR. RAMPTON: It is the longer of the two dated 20th May.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I originally marked them Supplementary
36 Statement which is B, Support Statement which is just two
37 paragraphs and that is C, and Second Supplementary
38 Statement which is D.
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40 MS. STEEL: Thank you.
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42 MR. RAMPTON: The last page of B consists of one paragraph, does
43 it, Mr. Bishop, paragraph 9?
44 A. Yes.
45
46 Q. "On 27th September 1990 I attended a meeting of Greenpeace
47 London", et cetera, "arriving at 7.30. Helen Steel
48 attended the meeting and then she said that she, Mr. Morris
49 and Mr. Gravett had been served with writs and were taking
50 legal advice". Do you know whether you attended any
51 meeting of London Greenpeace after that date, 27th
52 September?
53 A. To the best of my recollection, that was my last
54 meeting.
55
56 Q. So, we have you there from 17th May 1990 until 27th
57 September. Do you have a recollection, roughly, how many
58 meetings you attended? One can count up the ones mentioned
59 in this document which amount to about a dozen -- sorry, in
60 these documents, I should say, these witness statements,
