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1 reported on at London Greenpeace meetings). She was
2 involved in organising the 1990 London Greenpeace fayre
3 (including making announcements from the stage coordinating
4 events) In addition, she had a relationship with somebody
5 involved with London Greenpeace and she took an active part
6 in the 1990 international mail out."
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8 Actually you were not involved with the mail out anyway,
9 but apart from that, does that accord with your
10 recollection?
11 A. Yes. I mean, I would agree with all that. She was
12 very enthusiastic almost from the beginning. Well, from
13 the beginning. I was away for a couple of weeks and by the
14 time I had come back she was heavily involved in the group
15 and Hackney and Islington Animal Rights Campaign and with
16 the Anti-McDonald's pickets outside various branches of
17 McDonald's.
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19 Q. You saw her on those pickets?
20 A. Yes, at Dalston.
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22 Q. Did she hand out leaflets?
23 A. Yes.
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25 Q. You were at the 1990 picket of McDonald's head office?
26 A. Yes, in East Finchley.
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28 Q. We saw you on the video yesterday. Do you remember her on
29 that picket?
30 A. Yes. I mean, most of the people involved in Hackney
31 and Islington Animal Rights Campaign were quite keen on
32 leafleting and she was the same. She was very
33 enthusiastic, almost unbelievably so.
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35 Q. Okay.
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37 MR. MORRIS: You have said four of the enquiry agents,
38 infiltrators were considered to be among the regulars at
39 meetings?
40 A. Yes.
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42 Q. And that they asked you about -- did they all ask you about
43 McDonald's matters, do you remember?
44 A. I cannot remember specifically. I mean, as I said,
45 Anthony Pocklington expressed an interest in anti-fast food
46 campaigning. Maybe I had just assumed, but the
47 recollection that Brian Bishop had read an A5 leaflet of
48 ours and Allan Claire answered letters on various occasions
49 and certainly Michelle Hooker. They never expressed any
50 disinterest in the campaign or they never said they did not
51 agree with the campaign.
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53 Q. As a result of their involvement in the group, did that
54 affect you in any way?
55 A. I mean, it did, to the extent that London Greenpeace as
56 a group was not exactly fizzling out but there was less
57 people from the time when I attended in October 1988, there
58 would be about 15, 20, maybe more people, at meetings, and
59 by 1989, by summer 1989 this had dwindled to maybe 10, I
60 am not sure, but after the London Greenpeace -- well, it
