Day 276 - 09 Jul 96 - Page 26
1 Mr. Gravett may have been particularly free with his
2 comments about the stalls, seeing as he had organised the
3 previous two fayres, so he had experience about, you know,
4 the organisation of stalls and which stalls to invite.
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6 About paragraph 8, the discussion about the design of
7 the leaflet to promote the fayre. I did not participate in
8 that discussion at all. I actually remember the
9 discussion, and it was not about whether the third great
10 year should be in a star or a circle, it was something to
11 do with whoever had drawn the leaflet had done a four-sided
12 star and Jane was just saying that it was ridiculous
13 because you did not get four-sided stars, it should be
14 five-sided, and it is made out to be, like, a major topic
15 of conversation about the leaflet, and I think it was some
16 minor point that came up and I am sure that I did not
17 contribute to it whatsoever.
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19 In paragraph 9.1 of his first statement, he refers to
20 the picket of McDonald's restaurant in Seven Sisters Road,
21 and, as we have already heard, this was a picket by Hackney
22 and Islington animal rights. He goes on to say "this
23 information was to be passed by other members of the
24 group". I presume that means passed on by other members of
25 the group by telephone the following day. Just, if that is
26 intended to refer to myself, or if anyone is going to try
27 and say that that refers to myself, I certainly did not
28 pass that information on to anybody else. I did not attend
29 the picket and I had nothing whatsoever to do with
30 organising it.
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32 Just a similar point in the third statement of Brian
33 Bishop in paragraph 3. Where he refers to the meeting
34 being chaired by Jane but lacking in direction.
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36 Q. The third statement?
37 A. Sorry, the fourth statement, it must be. I forgot that
38 there was the one page 1.
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40 Q. Yes?
41 A. Paragraph 3. In fact I think I might have dealt with
42 this in the notes, but he says, "The leading members, Helen
43 Steel, Dave Morris and Paul Gravett were absent". Just,
44 obviously none of us were the leading members. There were
45 not any leading members. I think that has dealt with all
46 the bits of the statements to be dealt with.
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48 No, there was Mr. Howes. I had forgotten about him.
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50 Q. Yes. He should be at 2A in the same bundle?
51 A. Right. Just to say that I certainly did not bring
52 copies of the fact sheet to court to distribute to members
53 of the press and I -- the papers behind us on the bench, I
54 have never seen a pile of fact sheet there, be they
55 photocopied or the originals. The papers that were behind
56 us on the bench, it is my recollection that our legal
57 advisors had various of the papers to do with the case and
58 that they had those in front of them when they were sitting
59 behind us.
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