WHEN THE prosecution case against the Newham ended it had several unanswered. How could an official police record say 15 whites were fighting when no officer admitted seeing any at all? Did police know of or suspect a link between the hammer attacks on Asians from a silver Granada and the racialist Duke of Edinburgh pub?
was right at the scene when the Asians attacked' the pub. He saw no whites until Asians ran into the pub, after which there was an 'ebb and flow' outside. In his desire to exaggerate the number of Asians he had 30 of them throwing missiles from behind a doubledecker bus!
•Bonzo' also revealed he politics underlying this Forest Gate are trying to stir up trouble about racist attacks', including detendants Zafar Parvaiz the hammer attacks that day, the Wimpy bar where However, he did later take Scott Young from the pub to the police station thinkof the Granada attackers.
Next came a series of DSU officers who arrested three Asian detendants the next evening. Two officers centrai questions still DC Bonczoszek was the star police witness: he had been discovered in court beforehand, 'checking on the layout'. Cross-examination showed ther had made their notes together without properly recording the fact; the onone who hadn't omitted all the incriminating details. None of the three defendants was interviewed about alleged 'offensive weapons' in the car. The only description they supposedly fitted was 'young Asian'.
It was for DS Gillie to explain the white оетелокик welc released without charge. "Tack of evidence was the reason even though they 7-foot poles. Of course, WEIC arrested carrying when Aisans were kept overnignt Il due delay! He called the case the Khan inquirv' and only charged the whites with affray after his legal advisors told him to. He himself retired very shortly after that, pleading overwork: the judge refused to order release of the Home Office Inspector's report made around that time.
Right at the end was Pavinder Sain, one of the hammer victims the police had failed to trace. He had been kidnapped and only escaped by jumping. the moving Granada. In The unexpectedly admitted being present at the final incident and seeing one his attackers among whites throwing glasses and other missiles from outside the pub. The prosecution were furious: how could Sain be both a 'victim' and part of an 'attacking mob'?
But that is exactly the defence in this case. Asian youth were under attack by whites who at any rate seemed to be based in the Duke of Edinburgh. They went in numbers to wall the racists that they could defend themselves and to prevent further attacks Barrister Rudy Narayan stated the case in a powerful opening. 'This Laus nol aboul calle walfare, it is about racism and It was unsafe to walk the streets that day if YUU quoted were une Asian' Steven He Waldorf case where a pre emptive self-defence was allowed. Reasonable force can be used in prevention crime.
'he first defendant, Athar Chaudhri, was attacked three times on 7 once by Scott Young (for which Chaudhri faces an ABH charge). Police notes refer to him admitabricated. He sal the fabricated. He said were going to confront the pub, the attacks had to br His first witness was subjected to harassment whites at the Wimpy earlier that day and saic Chaudhri protecter him. In the past he had been viciously stabbed by a white gang and when h reported it to police had been accused and nearly
Socialist Action 03 July 1985