Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 81
1 26th July 1990?
2 A. There is.
3
4 Q. What I am after is a typewritten note for 9th August 1990?
5 A. Yes, I have that.
6
7 Q. The last question I have to ask you before I sit down is
8 this: You say, "I arrived at 5 Caledonian Road" -- this
9 appears, as I have said, to have been a note you made the
10 next day, 10th August?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. "... at 19.30" -- or, as we say in English, 7.30 p.m..
14 "Present were Jonathan, Jane, Alan from Catford, Charlie
15 and Mark. The meeting followed the normal pattern with no
16 disruptions from the agenda and was 'chaired' by Jane".
17 Can you remember now, at this distance of time, why you put
18 the word "chaired" in inverted commas?
19 A. Because there was no chair person as such. The chair
20 was taken by whoever wanted to at each meeting.
21
22 Q. Then you say: "The meeting lacked the direction of last
23 week, probably due to the absence of the leading members of
24 the group." I am going to come back to that. "Most of the
25 discussion was taken up with trying to decide which
26 organisations were to be invited to participate in the
27 so-called workshops planned for the coming Greenpeace
28 fare. I had the impression that no one present wished to
29 be definitive about such matters because whatever they said
30 would be overruled by the 'non-existent' hierarchy if the
31 latter disagreed". Then there is what I take to be a
32 comment of your own, "so much for anarchy"?
33 A. Yes, it was.
34
35 Q. Can I ask you: At this stage, 9th August 1990, can you
36 remember who you perceived to be the leading members of the
37 group or, as you ironically put it, the non-existent
38 hierarchy?
39 A. Paul Gravett, Dave Morris and Helen Steel.
40
41 Q. What was it that -- by this time you had been going a few
42 times since the middle of May of the same year; this is now
43 the beginning part of August -- what was it that led you to
44 the conclusion that the hierarchy, the leading members were
45 Mr. Gravett, Mr. Morris and Ms. Steel; do you remember now?
46 A. My impression was formed mainly because decisions that
47 were made by these three seemed to be followed by the
48 remaining members of the group.
49
50 Q. You saw Mr. Morris you told us, for example, in action at
51 the meeting on 2nd August, 1990?
52 A. Yes.
53
54 Q. That is from your first statement. You have been in court,
55 I think, today, have you not?
56 A. Yes.
57
58 Q. Is that the first time you have been in court?
59 A. Yes.
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