Day 263 - 14 Jun 96 - Page 50
1 Do you recall whether you paid any other visit to any
2 meeting of London Greenpeace during 1990?
3 A. I cannot recall attending any other proper meetings.
4 I have a vague recollection of going there after this date
5 and there being no meeting, in fact; no one turned up.
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7 Q. How soon after this?
8 A. I would -- bearing in mind they were held monthly, it
9 must have been a month later. I am guessing, but I think
10 that was it.
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12 Q. Does it follow that you never went to a meeting at
13 5 Caledonian Road?
14 A. No, definitely not.
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16 Q. In paragraph 2, you tell us that you attended in the
17 capacity of an inquiry agent in pursuance of instructions
18 of a London based firm of inquiry agents engaged by the
19 Plaintiffs, who we now know to be Kings. At that time,
20 what status did you have in or in relation to Kings
21 Investigation Bureau?
22 A. I was a freelance investigator for them.
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24 Q. Did there come a time when you had some kind of managerial
25 responsibility at Kings?
26 A. Yes. Later that year, possibly in July or August,
27 I became a temporary general manager there; and I was there
28 until around about the end of October that year in that
29 capacity.
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31 Q. As you probably know, and as we certainly do, during that
32 time a number of other people from Kings visited the group,
33 went to their meetings, and so on and so forth. Did you
34 have anything personally to do with the instructions given
35 to those people or, indeed, the choice of people that were
36 sent during that later period?
37 A. No, not at all. I believe the managing director
38 controlled this particular case. I certainly had no
39 involvement in the administration or any sort of control of
40 it at all.
41
42 Q. The managing director was Mr. Hartley; is that right?
43 A. Yes, correct.
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45 Q. Did you ever hear what instructions, if any, Mr. Hartley
46 gave to any of the other investigators?
47 A. No, I did not.
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49 Q. Now, in this statement you tell us in paragraph 4 that you
50 arrived at 7.30 and the meeting did not start until 8, when
51 five people were present. Do you remember the identities
52 of any of the five people who were present when you first
53 arrived?
54 A. No, I cannot, I am afraid.
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56 Q. Then you say: "During the course of the meeting, other
57 persons drifted in and out and the total maximum number of
58 people present at any one time was nine. Towards the end
59 of the meeting, the subject matter turned to the
60 international mail-out. Dave Morris, who had previously
