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.
     6
     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.
    11
    12   Q.   Does it follow that you never went to a meeting at
    13        5 Caledonian Road?
    14        A.  No, definitely not.
    15
    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.
    23
    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.
    30
    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.
    44
    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.
    48
    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.
    55
    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

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