Day 272 - 02 Jul 96 - Page 07

     
     1        everyone present free to contribute.  Of course, people new
     2        to the group did not have much to say but there were often
     3        several people who played an active part.  The group had no
     4        'leaders' and the agenda was always passed around so
     5        anyone there could put down what they wanted to be
     6        discussed"?
     7        A.   Yes, that is completely true.
     8
     9   Q.   That is your signature at the bottom of the page, is it?
    10        A.  Yes.
    11
    12   Q.   And you are happy for this to be taken as your evidence?
    13        A.   I am, yes.
    14
    15   Q.   I think the easiest way to do the next part is - could
    16        someone get the witness, maybe you could get it, the pale
    17        blue file that is right at the end on the top row which
    18        contains the private investigator's notes.  Could you just
    19        get that down please.  On the left-hand side at the end.
    20
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, right at the end.  It is a bright blue
    22        one with a white spine.  Straight in front of you now.
    23        A.   That one?
    24
    25   Q.   Yes, that is right.
    26
    27   MS. STEEL:  Okay.  If you could turn to the notes of 2nd October
    28        1989.  They should be page 1.
    29        A.   Yes, I can see them.
    30
    31   Q.   You have had a chance to look through at least some of the
    32        notes, have you not?
    33        A.   Yes, I have, yes.
    34
    35   Q.   Have you read the notes of this meeting, do you know?
    36        A.   Yes.
    37
    38   Q.   This is about the Hackney and Islington Animal Rights
    39        meeting?
    40        A.   Yes.
    41
    42   Q.   On 2nd October 1989?
    43        A.   Yes.
    44
    45   Q.   This might seem like a bit of an obvious question, but was
    46        this a London Greenpeace event?
    47        A.   No, it was not a London Greenpeace event.  It was a
    48        Hackney and Islington Animal Rights public meeting.
    49
    50   Q.   Right.  Were you actually nominated or delegated or
    51        anything to speak on behalf of London Greenpeace?
    52        A.   No.  I would not, you know, I would not have been
    53        nominated, no, or anything like that.  I mean, I would --
    54        what would have happened is that by 1989 I had been
    55        responsible for London Greenpeace's anti-McDonald's
    56        activity for over two years.  I would have simply said, you
    57        know, said I was going to go and speak.  I would have
    58        mentioned it, perhaps, at a meeting, a London Greenpeace
    59        meeting, and it would have been left to me by people in the
    60        group to do because people simply trusted me.  I mean, the