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1 Mr. Bishop, Mr. Claire and Michelle Hooker were considered
2 to be among the regulars at meetings, that all four
3 expressed interest in anti-McDonald's campaigning --"
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is four, is it? It is very faint in my
6 copy.
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8 MS. STEEL: Yes. Sorry, I think I need a new ribbon on my
9 printer.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Then something is crossed out on purpose.
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13 MS. STEEL: Yes, I do not know what that is.
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15 "All four expressed interest in anti-McDonald's campaigning
16 and never disassociated themselves from any related
17 activity."
18 A. No. Yes, that is true.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: "Campaigning and", and then it stops for me.
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22 MS. STEEL: There is a line right at the top of the following
23 page. It has kind of got detached from the rest of it.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I see. I remember noticing that before,
26 yes. Very well.
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28 MS. STEEL: Can I just ask you something on that. What do you
29 recollect about Mr. Pocklington and whether or not he had
30 any interest in the campaign?
31 A. Well, he certainly never disassociated himself from the
32 campaign. In fact, I remember within the first few weeks
33 of him turning up he had - I cannot remember why the
34 conversation started, I think it was he had a cup of coffee
35 with him with some milk in it, and I questioned him about
36 it, asked him if he was vegan or vegetarian, and he said
37 that he ate meat but the reason why he was coming along to
38 the group was his concern about fast food. So that, for
39 me, means that he is involved, he is expressing interest in
40 the anti-McDonald's campaign because we did not have any
41 other fast food campaigns.
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43 Q. Right. Is there a reason why you remember that?
44 A. I mean, not particularly, apart from that it just
45 seemed that most people in the group were vegetarian, if
46 not vegan. I mean, when he first came along he looked
47 quite different from other people in the group, so I did
48 remember a few things about him that he said. I just
49 remember the cup of coffee. He bought it from a take-away
50 thing round the corner which was quite weird because he
51 said he did not like fast food and yet he was buying it
52 from a fast food joint.
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54 Q. Right. Going on to No. 10:
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56 "Both defence witnesses will say that Michelle Hooker was
57 strongly involved in general activities up to May 1991, in
58 particular in anti-McDonald's campaigning. She was
59 involved with Hackney and Islington Animal Rights activity
60 and anti-McDonald's pickets (handing out leaflets which she
