Day 276 - 09 Jul 96 - Page 25
1 reference drawer", and that is incorrect. It was just an
2 international reference drawer for any interesting letters
3 that came from abroad. Some of them may have mentioned
4 McDonald's but it was not an exclusively McDonald's drawer,
5 it was about all campaigns and all contact from abroad.
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7 Just a final point about in photograph 11, the
8 typewriter. In all the time that I have been going into
9 the office I do not think I have seen anybody use that
10 typewriter for any purpose, let alone typing up leaflets
11 and info' sheets.
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13 If we go on to Mr. Pocklington, in tab 7.
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15 Q. Yes?
16 A. I mean, I think he has agreed that he did not know,
17 that he never looked through the boxes on the homemade
18 shelving so he did not actually know what was in them.
19 They would not have been full of fact sheets because there
20 were not enough left, and the other thing is that where he
21 says there was also a filing cabinet packed with leaflets,
22 the filing cabinets were just packed with old letters and
23 reference information. That was not where leaflets were
24 stored. The leaflets were out on the shelves. I think I
25 have dealt with the other points.
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27 The second statement of Mr. Pocklington, paragraph 21,
28 I do not know whether I need to deal with this, actually,
29 because I think I asked him about it and he said he did not
30 know if I was answering letters or not, or whether I was
31 just reading them. If I was answering any letters it would
32 be a very rare occasion and it would not have been
33 anti-McDonald's letters, it would have been IMF. Also, if
34 I can just say, he talks in the final paragraph -- no, not
35 in the final, in paragraph 23 of his third statement --
36 Mr. Pocklington this is -- that anti-McDonald's leaflets
37 were always displayed and available at the monthly open
38 meetings which I attended having been transported from 5
39 Caledonian Road by members of the group. I never took part
40 in the transport. I have never carried any leaflets from
41 Caledonian Road and put them in the centre of the table at
42 Endsleigh Street, and I have never put any fact sheets in
43 the centre of the table at Endsleigh Street, any of the
44 anti-McDonald's fact sheets, and I think it is very
45 unlikely that they were always there. I think it very
46 unlikely that any anti-McDonald's leaflets were always
47 there.
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49 Going on to Brian Bishop, just in paragraph 5 of his
50 first statement. Obviously, there are no lead persons in
51 the group. People who had maybe only been to one or two
52 meetings and who did not really know people there might not
53 say as much, but there was nobody -- well, there was no
54 lead persons, there were no leaders or anything like that.
55 In paragraph 7 he says about Charlie reading out the list
56 of various stalls to be invited to the group and he says
57 that myself and Dave Morris and Paul Gravett were the most
58 vociferous. Firstly, it is my recollection that I might
59 have chipped in the odd occasional comment, but that I
60 certainly would not have been the most vociferous.
