Stop racist By Oliver New and Asha Patel IN SOUTHALL and Leicester the magistrates are baving a whale of • dime. The prisoners taken by the SPG crack units during anti-Nt mobil sations as well as those arrested by Lelcester & miner from Doncaster, Martin Hughes, has been sentenced to prison for four months for alleged assault. Three other demonstrators worker, Balbir Birk, has been sent to alleged assault. Fines had risen to $600 last week, The Southall Defence CLARICS present showing at least 80 people will be imprisoned when the show trials cases are being dealt with, is that even keep the peace' for a year, with a heavy penalty attached. The reason is simple: it is to deprive them of their democratic rights and give a green police to harass and inding some irregularity somewhere.
Take the case of M. Sihra. He was guilty, fined and bound over for two years, with & month's imprisonment if he is convicted on any pretext.
defence witnesses' prosecution and the defence and I The purpose of these trials is to teach young blacks and anti-racists a lesson. London's police boss McNee said as much when he defended the on the character of the magistrates Accountable magistrates who sit full-time on the sapposedly representative of the com.
aren't allowed to know because it is & Most justices of the AT Belfast's Crown Court last week, Sergeant Alan Bohan and Corporal Ronald Temerley were acquitted of the murder of 16-year-old John Boyle in a County Antrim graveyard last Ine watch standards of British justice in the North of Ireland. For the conspiracy to free the killers was so blatant and detectable that even the Lord Chief Robert Lowry, who sat as judge and jury, had difficulty in explaining why 1978. He was killed by the SAS squad as he was bending over a cache of that Boyle was shot as one of a group of men armed and carrying bombs. This was a lie, and the second Army a 'terrorist' who was pointing a gun at the soldiers when he was shot. This too was a lie, and later the Army 'terrorist'; indeed, a few days earlier he had found the arms cache and told his father, who had reported it to the ambush at the graveyard. Boyle was killed when he came back to check if earnest. The first move was to ensure that no more would be heard about the incident. Papers relating to the killing were sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, who then sent them to the Labour government's papers were shelved and no charges a secret copy of the state pathologist's report on Boyle's death which showed that he had been shot from behind.
authorities' hands, and Temerley and Boban were put on trial.
authorities faced was to concoct some plausible excuse for the shooting of the man likely to pick up the cache'.
When Sergeant Bohan took to the procedure Corporal Temerley didn't bother to go through — he claimed that Boyle looked like O'Neill, 'whose picture I had seen previously.
The rest of Bohan's evidence was, to say the least, unimpressive. He admitted that, contrary to the rules set out in the British Army's «Yellow Card", he had not challenged Boyle before shooting him; and he agreed in court that in the briefing before the killing it could have been mentioned that a 'killing' was preferable to a capture.
Vague have convicted himself from his own mouth, and even Chief Justice Lowry agreed that the killer had proved an 'untrustworthy witness' whose evidence was "vague and unsatisfactory'.
did offer was that Boyle had lifted one of the guns in the cache and had been pointing it in the soldiers' direction conclusive fingerprint evidence that Indeed, it was agreed by the defence that two of the three bullets which evidence about the third bullet, and it was this which provided the excuse to. acquit the killers. Because the third bullet might have hit Boyle when he was facing his assassins, and because thai Boyle might have handled one of the arms, this allowed Lowry to conclude the Army assumed that they were above the normal standards of good old British law and order. When the killers first appeared in court they were accompanied by four others and refused to identify themselves.
they were accompanied by an Army suspects do not have the privilege of legal advice when they are questioned And when the detectives arrived to interview Bohan and Temerley, they statement and told that the soldiers Consolation This assumption that the SAS are above the law has now proved correct. In a statement reeking of the blackest of black humour, the British Army