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Press Releases & Updates 1999
6th December 1999
Contradictory Testimony At Trial Of Demonstrator
Expert Witness Claims Nuclear Death Toll Would be 250 Million
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At Helensburgh District Court today defence witnesses contradicted crown
evidence given by police officers in the trial of a Trident Ploughshares
activist charged with breach of the peace.
Alan Wilkie, a retired company director from Currie, is defending himself
on the charge, which relates to a demonstration last November at Faslane
naval base, home to Britain’s Trident missile submarine fleet. A series of
defence witnesses testified that no traffic in and out of the base had been
affected by his actions and that the time given by police witnesses for the
demonstration was inaccurate.
On the basis of these contradictions Wilkie submitted that he had no case
to answer. This was rejected by JP Scullion after consideration.
Wilkie called as an expert witness Professor Jack Boag, an international
authority on the medical effects of radiation. Professor Boag said that a
nuclear war between the superpowers would lead to the deaths of at least
250 million people. Professor Boag also testified at the "Trident Three"
trial in October in Greenock Sheriff Court when Angie Zelter, Ellen Moxley
and Ulla Roder were acquitted on charges of malicious damage to the
research barge Maytime.
The case was adjourned to 31st January 2000.
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