Day 274 - 04 Jul 96 - Page 29
1 was an anti-McDonald's fayre in 1989, Anthony turned up as
2 a result of having gone to the fayre. He said that at the
3 first meeting he attended. It just gave you the impression
4 that the group was maybe on a roll again, that we could get
5 things going. These seemed like fairly ordinary members of
6 the public. They were not your sort of typical sort of
7 punk types that maybe went to, you know, were into anarchy
8 or whatever. You know, they seemed to have, you know,
9 thoughts about our campaigns and were genuinely interested
10 in the group, yes. So it made me feel that the group could
11 move on, could be doing more things now.
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13 Q. We have nearly finished. I just want to check. You said
14 that I was effectively not involved with London Greenpeace
15 activities, I think from about the summer of 1989, August
16 1989 onwards?
17 A. Yes.
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19 Q. And patchily before, if at all. Was there anybody else in
20 a similar position, or had been in the group a long time
21 previously to that?
22 A. Not quite in the same way. I mean, I suppose I could
23 say Albert, he had been in the group for quite a few years
24 before I was involved, but not quite in the same way. He
25 would turn up for the last 10 minutes of a meeting perhaps,
26 just to show his face, just catch up on activities. You
27 would turn up, I don't know, maybe once every couple of
28 months just to show your face in the same way, I think, you
29 know.
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31 Q. Do you know how long Albert - you would only know this by
32 hearsay - but would you know how long Albert had been in
33 the group previous to you joining, whether he had been in
34 the group, how long he had been in the group for?
35 A. Well, I know he had been in for quite a few years, just
36 because he was involved in the peace movement. I just know
37 from the history of the group that London Greenpeace was
38 much more heavily involved in the peace movement maybe in
39 the early 80s, late 70s. I do not know if he was involved
40 in the late 70s, but I know he has been involved in the
41 group for quite a while.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where are we going here?
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45 MR. MORRIS: I am going to ask whether.... Well, all right, I
46 will just check if there are any further questions.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not strain for every last detail. You
49 have covered the matters in Miss Laporte's statement and
50 the additional notes and referred her to a number of
51 meetings where she was present.
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53 MR. MORRIS: Just one question about Albert. He only crops up
54 as a name on a couple of occasions in the notes from the
55 private investigators. If he only came towards the end of
56 a meeting, would someone's name go down in the minutes or
57 be noted or what?
58 A. I think it would completely depend on who was taking
59 the minutes.
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