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Press Releases & Updates 1999
7th October 1999
Disarmers’ Target "Of Prime Importance to Trident" Admits Crown Witness
Theft Charges Dropped
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On the ninth day of the Greenock trial of three women accused of damaging Trident-related floating laboratory "Maytime", a key Crown witness, the worker in charge of the facility, admitted that it was of prime importance to the Trident nuclear weapons system.
Bargemaster Iain McPhee was pressed by Advocate John Mayer, on behalf of one of the defendants, Ulla Roder, to explain the function of the barge and its links with the nuclear weapons submarines. McPhee was so hesitant and evasive a witness that Mayer stated: "This is not cross-examination, this is dentistry." Eventually McPhee conceded that the barge conducted important research for the Ministry of Defence, that the research related to the operation of Royal Navy Submarines, including Trident submarines, and that the action of the women had had some effect on the ability of the research station to proceed with its work.
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