Day 249 - 14 May 96 - Page 56
1 Q. Right.
2 A. Dave Hornblow.
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4 Q. Who is also security?
5 A. Also security. I am not sure whether Mimi Holme went.
6 She went to one. I do not know whether it was the '88
7 -----
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Who was that, the last one?
10 A. Mimi Holme. She is the secretary in the security
11 department, my Lord, and myself.
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13 MS. STEEL: You all went separately?
14 A. Yes.
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16 Q. How long were you there for?
17 A. I must say, I got a surprise when I got inside the door
18 because you were not in the actual main hall; you were in
19 the hallway. You were the first table, sort of a half a
20 hexagon table.
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22 Q. You mean London Greenpeace?
23 A. Yes, sorry, not you; I do not even know whether you
24 were there. Next to you was one of your supporting
25 organisations and next to them was Veggies. Now, I had
26 already had a confrontation with Veggies. I mean, a face
27 to face with the man who organises Veggies.
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29 Q. Who is that?
30 A. I cannot remember his name now, but he sat in court
31 since the trial started. I certainly was not looking for a
32 confrontation. So I stopped ten minutes, perhaps.
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34 Q. Did he recognise you?
35 A. I did not see him there and I did not want him to see
36 me there.
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38 Q. All right.
39 A. When I say "head to head confrontation", confrontation
40 is probably the wrong word. He had a demonstration in
41 Nottingham when he paraded a veggie burger through the
42 streets with a band and then presented them to me at the
43 door of the restaurant in Nottingham and there was some
44 banter between him and I. I invited him in for a meal.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There was no vulgar abuse, or anything.
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48 THE WITNESS: But the point was I felt he would know me if
49 I hung around here too long and I had a confrontation, so
50 I got out. I did not actually go into the main hall.
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52 MS. STEEL: Just about that thing in Nottingham, had you gone
53 up there to meet Veggies? Was this at the time of
54 the-----
55 A. Yes, yes, they had -- well, I do not know how I found
56 out, but I found out there was going to be this
57 demonstration. Marcus Hewson was the regional manager up
58 there. Although a good regional manager, he had not dealt
59 with many demonstrations in his career and he asked me to
60 go up and stand alongside.
