place at . Class predecessors, NO!
•on the cities Mustafa, Nirinder Gedhu differences HOl ulce wores. traditional snouo be are for more and daily police brutality.
demonstration on the on the report, staff WE informed readers last week that a new stipendiary magistrate, C Burke, had taken his Barnet magistrates court wonderer whether he conld he worse than his Canham, Cooke, Badge McDermott. The answer is a clear and The six defendants who were tried last week were Tarlok Aulakh, .Gurmil Brard, Malkit Heer, Majit Johal - ail on a variety of charges of assault and threatening behaviour. The trial lasted a whole week and the magistrate retired on Friday to consider his verdict.
The high point of the trial was Richard Harvey's summing up for the defence. He did Harvey implied that it was the police who on trial. He pointed out the take character of police evidence. He explained tor deportations and the Southall show trials being held in Barnet will be the best way of expressing the anger of black people against state harassment *In the weeks leading up to the Socialist Challenge will be publishing reports from all the localities where campaigns are taking CLP. place. Make sure you send in your THE second students about these Southall on 23 April.
and stipendiaries ignored or interrupted and CHOO the police at Southall.
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assaulting acquitted.
Heer and Gedhu assault. and respectively.
There can be little doubt that the previous at Barnet would have either Harvey. But Burke played it according to the rules and refused to ignore defence evidence. The result was the first victory for the political prisoners captured by Tarlok Aulakh faced three separate charges of assault and threatening behaviour. He was Mustafa charged three police officers. He was Gurmil Brard was charged with assault as was Majit Johal. Both were acquitted.
were found guilty WOIS fined £250 and £150 Burke's verdict represents the first serious been the core of the police case # magistrates CO HaL anyone into a false sense of security.
cases (even concern by lawyers and the labour morea show trials.
there hundreds more defendants to come November. In of show trials must be stopped!
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