FOLLOWING a successful appeal against remand without bail, Trevor Monerville has now been released from police custody. But the campaign goes on.
On Saturday November a successful picket was held outside Hackney Police Station, supported amongst others by the Labour Party Black Section. We reproduce below their committees statement.
THE Labour Party Black Section is appalled at the incident' on Sunda November vo yue c black youths and Hackney Police, which Trevor Monerville and his brothe Peter Thomas received in juries to the head and body.
In January of this year Trevor Monerville needed emergency treatment • TOLOWI his arrest by police Stoke Newington The Labour Party Black Section is outraged at the latest in a long of maimings, vicious assaults and murders by the state's bully boys. Were ali be shes concerned ic swiftly brought severely punished and also that police force should be placed under the democratic control elected local bodies and the Police Complaints Authority be replaced by dependent organisation The police have declared war on black people. The black must mobilise and resist!
The Labour Party Black Section therefore stands four-square the Family and Friends of Trevor Monerville •Campaign Committee and we support their demands for the dropping of all charges against Trevor Monerville Peter Thomas and Paul KOLE We are also calling for black and white politicians including those in parlia ment to raise this important issue at the highest level. • For further information contact: Steve Youth Organiser, 46 Summerhouse Avenue Middlesex TWS 9DA (01-577 5057).