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Press Releases & Updates 2002
13th November 2002
Helensburgh Court Not Interested In Trident Or The Law
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Brian Brown, 68, a retired teacher from Kilwinning, who was acquitted of a Breach of the Peace at Dumbarton Sheriff Court in August this year for protesting at Faslane, today discovered that the Helensburgh District Court has a different interpretation of justice. In spite of very similar evidence and putting forward the same arguments as he did last time he was found guilty and fined £100.
Barbara MacGregor, 34, from Glasgow, appearing on a Breach of the Peace charge for a blockade of the Clyde submarine base at Faslane last October showed the court pictures of children affected by radiation. She apologised for them being so graphic but wanted the Justice John MacPhail to know what the results of using the nuclear weapons at Faslane would be.
She concluded her defence by saying
’If we are to look at the concept of peace and when it is breached we have to go beyond the free flow of traffic and look at the trafficking of weapons of terror such as Trident. I am horrified that the town of Helensburgh can just turn its back on the consequences of using the weapons just up the road you are sleep walking into disaster.’
JP MacPhail found her guilty and fined her £100.
A Trident spokesperson said:
’It is clear that the Helensburgh District Court does not want to hear about Trident but in view of their repeated dismissal of sound legal arguments which are taken account of in other courts it seems that our local magistrates are not even interested in the law anymore.’
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