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The iwo priests, demand Relatives of remand prisoners held on informer evidence were disappointed by the response to a seven person delegation from Belfast, here to outline their opposition to the system of paid perjury in the no-jury Despite sympathetic response from London's black community who instinctively understood the conditions faced in the North, the delegation complain. • ed that even the Liberals showed more inTime after time, the show trials were justified by the argument that terrorism had to be 'kept off 'They were asking', said Bernadette McAliskey in her Conway Hall speech, 'that I should tell them what would be a more acceptable When terrorism is defined as any opposition to the policies of the British government, we are all guilty. We were Barrister Phil Magee risks losing his job as a result of his out-spoken rejection of the 'supergrass' system. He described some of the most blatant frame-ups that he had confronted in court. In a jury court, the judge has to warn the jury that it is dangerous to convict on the basis of uncorroborated accomplice evidence. In the Diplock courts, where the judge sits alone on the bench, the same procedure is repeated in the most farcical fashion. The judge actually says out loud 'I hereby warn myself that it is dangerous to convict ...' and Philip's view was that either you had to have internment without trial, or that there should be a just legal system. At present the whole profession is implicated in providing a legalistic gloss for locking people up, with only a pretence of a fair trial The most moving appeal was made from Kathy Tohill, whose husband Robert has been driven to consider a hunger strike if it will get action against the informer system. Released after eight months on remand, Tohill's original accuser retracted all The had been bullied making false statements. Robert was then rearrested; this time and completely different charges which Robert says are again complete lies.
To date, over 400 people have been arrested and charged. More than 60 have been sentenced to a imprisonment under the , Lord Gifford's recent report Trust confirms the prisoners' arguments that fabricated evidence is responsible Fathers Faul and Murray, stated their opinion that 'informers are the victims of intimidation, blackmail, bribery, trickery and inducements.' Informers who later retracted their evidence have alleged that sums as high as £80,000 have been offered as bribes. Brigadier Frank Kitson's prescription that 'the law should be used as just another weapon in the government's arsenal unti it becomes little more than a propaganda cover for the disposal of unwanted members of the public' is being applied in Northern Ireland.
Socialists have campaigned in the labour movement to expose the use of the so-called Prevention of Terrorism Act and the supposedly 'harmless' plastic bullets. We must now turn in the same way dissociate itself from the charade they call the legal system in the North.