Peachto death. And despite all their new combined intelligence of the British police April.
now going to prosecute the Metropolitan to Fulham Town Hall and starts today. Lawyers for the Anti Nazi League will be police have so far refused to impart.
what happened in Southall on 23 April. being incurred. SO the inevitable happened. The Director of Public Prosecutions decided that there would be no prosecution in the Blair Peach murder case. The audacity of the British establishment knows no bounds. Here we have a clear case of an SPG hoodlum using an 'illegal weapon' to cosh Blair equipment and new methods of investigation the cannot discover the identity of the SPGkiller.
Small wonder then that there is growing disquiet within the labour movement on the cover-up. The newly-elected National Executive Committee of the Labour Party has registered its protest in no uncertain terms. It has called for an immediate and full public inquiry. It has demanded the publication of police orders of the day for operations in the Southall area on 23 The lawyers of the Blair Peach family are Police, and attention for the next few weeks will shift to the inquest which has been transferred demanding access to information which the Ourtasks in the coming weeks aretwofold. We haveto build the broadest possiblesupport to expose the cover-up. Wehave to insist that the police do not get away with blue murder. We have to ensure that they pay a heavy price for Atthesametime the trials at Barnet continue to acquire an ugly significance. There is now some national attention being focussed on the trials. A national picket is being prepared for early November, but all this is not enough. The Campaign Committee is still understaffed and needs all possible help. At the same time we need more money to help pay for the costs and fines • 700 people were arrested or 23rd April: 342, mainly young Asians, were charged • 70 are likely to be jailed if the • In sane send so are cases heard so far very few defendants have received legal • Fines. costs and expenses are expected to exceed £100,000.
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