Day 270 - 28 Jun 96 - Page 08

     
     1        shown photographs.
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Please keep your voice up, Mrs. Tiller.
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     5   THE WITNESS:  Sorry.  I cannot remember if I saw photographs,
     6        but I was certainly given descriptions.
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     8   MS. STEEL:  Right.  You also mention that soon after I had
     9        arrived, "... the young woman who I recognised by her
    10        description as Jane entered the room and sat down next to
    11        Helen".  So, from your notes, does that mean that you had
    12        been given a description of Jane as well?
    13        A.  Yes, I think I had been given a description.  Yes, I
    14        said "recognised by her description", so I had definitely
    15        been given a description of her.
    16
    17   Q.   Just looking through this to see if there are any
    18        references to McDonald's and on the third page there is a
    19        brief reference to previous anti-McDonald's protests, and
    20        also Jonathan mentioned.  This is on page 4, October 16th,
         which you said had become the annual anti-McDonald's day.
    22        That appears to be the only reference to McDonald's in
    23        these notes.  I mean, if anything else had been said about
    24        McDonald's would you have made a note of it?
    25        A.  Yes, certainly; that is what I was there to do.
    26
    27   Q.   Right.  At the end of your report you said, "Submitted with
    28        this report are (1) leaflet advertising the London
    29        Greenpeace public meeting June, 28th Thursday", and that is
    30        behind and it is a public meeting about conservation and
    31        radical ecology.  (2) CPRE brochure and (3) the Trafalgar
    32        Square Defendants' Campaign.  So, do we take it from that
    33        that you did not pick up any leaflets about McDonald's at
    34        this meeting?
    35        A.  Yes, that is correct.
    36
    37   Q.   If there had been leaflets there about McDonald's would you
    38        have picked them up?
    39        A.  Most certainly, yes.
    40
    Q.   Just towards the end of page 3, but in the third to last
    42        paragraph, you said that as you were leaving you were met
    43        with "a much more relaxed and friendly attitude from Paul,
    44        Helen and Jane who all invited me to attend the weekly
    45        meetings at 5 Caledonian Road".
    46
    47        What was your impression of the group in terms of, you
    48        know, whether or not it was -- what kind of people were
    49        attending, whether or not they were friendly or whether or
    50        not they were -- the group was secretive, or what? 
    51        A.  No, they seemed to believe very strongly in what they 
    52        were doing and this was after we went to the pub and we had 
    53        been chatting.  I mean, they were very ordinary people.  We
    54        just talked and chatted.  I remember going up the road to
    55        the pub and we were just strolling along and talking
    56        together, and I found them quite relaxed and friendly.
    57        They did not make me feel uncomfortable at all in any way.
    58
    59   Q.   Right.
    60