Deason:' A case to answer. | IMGpapers 1976

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NAME ADORESS SUUSCRIPTION RATES DOMESTIC: E) cer pea LS.SLO 10SIORATE FOREIGN: TH DR MREE SUFTECH TER (12 o sona mal Wetet HED WEEKLY ld Mecunoni di calecan an novc. London h! Last Wernesday John Deason, secretary of the Right To Wark Campaign was acqnitted of all charges arising out of the fint Right to Work march way huck in March 1976. Deason lud been churged WIEH harm, actual bodily humm and HICe aSSauIs. MOL dUULE daIR lisken sopped the frial on it grounds that there was no case tn wiswer.

As far es the charges againsd Deason went, that there sas 'an case to answer' was evident lust hold a year when an independent trade union enquiry by Rames Trade Council cuncladed that it mas palice violeace, and not thst of the marchens, Deason being charged. kwaruntee Bet for Judge Miskes while the pathecie nature of police evidence left him no other choice than te end the trial, he was still deter minedto get his pound of fesh. He ordered the police to Investigate what he called u probable serious contempt of cuart by demonstra tors puiside the Old Balley who had heen handing out lesflels on Ine Lessoe trampop bunt may not he over yet, but the reul'case to answer' isthe way that the police have bundled the Righ lo Work irials, Mike Lywch ha Jest finished serving a shree month sentence arising out of the frame-ups und 24 other marchen received fines TEURCINO exempleof thetspe of evidence the police have offered throsphont. They produeed as evidence a loud hailer with a deat in it, which they claimed Deuson had wsed 10 assault = policemun Hut pholasreplik AROSCR LCDIl Jond hailer after the incident, und ir Dustrated there was no dentin it. this is that the Right lo Work Campaien bas called for a puhtic imquiry inte the evenis at Hendon where the potice atlacked su anemplosed workersand arrested AneYous bodin which bud led lo So the Right to Work witehand suspended The Denson case wus u topica evirence •Carrina Ine itbs hecause of "evidence" such as Desson last Wednesday in pholograph below nna Daason, John Deeson, and a supporter outalde tha Old Balley altar charges ware dropped against him. (nbove), Ricky Tomlinson, Shewsbury büilding worker, addresses a 2000 strong demonstration in soliderity with HON: TỔ LỘNG CAMERION