Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 14

     
     1   Q.   But it does not -----
     2        A.  And this time you hoped it would be carried out during
     3        the whole of the weekend from the 14th to the 16th.
     4
     5   Q.   We are calling on groups to picket their local branch of
     6        McDonald's?
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   There is nothing there about a picket of Head Office?
    10        A.  No, but there was one.
    11
    12   Q.   There was not a picket of the Head Office on October 1988,
    13        was there?
    14        A.  Yes.
    15
    16   Q.   Your memory of the events of 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, your
    17        previous reference to '85 and '86, are all basically
    18        confused, are they not?
    19        A.  No.
    20
    Q.   You cannot remember what happened on what date?
    22        A.  Yes.
    23
    24   Q.   And you are assuming that there was a picket on each of
    25        those dates, and you are assuming that the fact sheet was
    26        handed out on each of those dates?
    27        A.  No.
    28
    29   Q.   You are still standing by saying that there were pickets on
    30        16th October 1987, and some time within a few days of
    31        16th October 1988, and that those pickets were organised by
    32        London Greenpeace and were basically run of the mill, much
    33        the same as the others?
    34        A.  Yes.
    35
    36   Q.   Is not the reality that it is actually quite understandable
    37        that at this stage of events, or even by 1993, when
    38        you -----
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You do not have to put this.  This is all
         comment to me.  If, at the end of the day, I decide there
    42        were not pickets in October 1987 and 1988, then you will
    43        make a comment as to the reliability of Mr. Nicholson's
    44        evidence, and I will make what I will of it.  You
    45        challenged him about it.
    46
    47   MS. STEEL:  Right.  Is it possible for copies of -- I do not
    48        know whether they are in the bundles -- Mr. Nicholson's
    49        fifth affidavit -- sorry.  Actually, before we go to that,
    50        Mr. Morris just wants to deal with something. 
    51 
    52   MR. MORRIS: (To the witness)  That last document, the one with 
    53        Terry Carroll's letter about the Day of Action -- if you
    54        could just put that in front of you -- 6th November 1987,
    55        you said, in the middle of that main paragraph, after "the
    56        worst hurricane in 200 years":
    57
    58        "We had demonstrations about 25 stores during the day.
    59        There was very little graffiti on the day, but Hastings
    60        store had its windows attacked with hydrofluoric acid on