close to the surged Chowdhury answered No.
Surbinder was himself to blame for crowd.
To the the prosecution of Rabinder ©N. Racine-Jaques, 1979 chle spectators that logic neatly fit Hitler's courts), In his summing up, the magistrate thanked him and the police constable for the frank wav in which they gave evidence, and then let Chowdhury off Airport, with a warning that he really had only being in court because, after all, he had been in the away.
It was that last remark which officer, peeled away the veneer or civilsea justice. And the case which followed, Bolina the police evidence against him. You could be forgiven for wondering what law had been broken. After the trial - verdict: guilty, costs the explained that threatening to other people.
guilty was backed with the evidence that he had been on his way home from work; that he had unwittingly got caught up with the crowd, that the arresting officer, Godsae, was among several cops who had forced him to run the gauntlet of action around the date of the inquest.
al anti-racists and trade unionists to work towaras a public demonstration intention to go on fighting the cover-up in the following ways:
Please attend the picket of the Coroner's Court on 11 October at Yam.
Nationwide: We appeal socialists. anti-racists, and trade unionists to help organise action their localities. are organising demonstrations and pickets of police stations in major towns, preferably on the eve of the inquest, 10 October.
Picket
your local police station.
Hold a march (torch light procession?) to the police station. Arrange a meeting lo tollow the demonstration.
Preparations for this | require help and to has hardly been fine £75 plus £30 defence solicitor be pandemonium As it happens, Bolina's plea of not and screened Sergeant Saturday levent: Leafleting and street meeting in the ares lt previDes Saturday. public meeting cover-up: Disband SPG The Friends of Blair Peach Committee can help you by supplying literature, including fact sheets, isheets. • Speakers can be provided anywhere in the country.
And we have 'Disband the SPG badges Bulk orders 10p small, 15p large badges; individual orders 22p inct. postage.
Please get in touch with the committee you expect • Ie police to behave in the same way as in your opinion they did in Leicester? police are themselves National Front. I saw that with my own eyes and I know my own experience. I am black. I know my mind. I have scell a lut..
The trials continue. They are almost certain to go on into next year.
costs are likely to amount to £100,000. Two defendants have so far been jailed.
Suresh Grover has sat through all the cases, helping to co-ordinate the legal defence on behalf of the Southall Defence Campaign. He says: "There 1 a murmur outside Southall about the trials.
"To be frank about it, if 342 white workers were arrested we'd have the labour movement creating all kind of about Because they're black, nothing has happened. I think it's shameful.' *Southall Defence has made an Door programme to on BBC-2 at 5.20pm, September and late evening the following Thursday.
know how far your plan have gone.
Southall — the trials ol the 342 people arrested i Southall re-opened week. This is as much a part of the cover-up as the stalling on bringing Blair's murderers to justice.
trade unimists must dent and that the trials are stopped. In the meantime. there is an urgent need for funds. Please make cheq ues payable to the Southat Defence Fund All correspondence and contributions to Friends of Committer. c/o ANL/BPMF, PO Bos 151, London W CZ.
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