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Questions for a Public Inquiry

 

It has to be noted that Warren, Tomlinson and McKinsie Jones were never charged with committing violence, and after their appeal only the conviction for conspiracy was left.

The Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign’s demand for a full public inquiry to lift the lid on the political conspiracy behind the jailing of the Shrewsbury pickets. Here are some of the questions that the Campaign will try to answer:

How much influence did the construction companies exert over the government and the judiciary? In particular what was the involvement of the hugely influential McAlpine building family?

Why did the trials proceed even though two separate police forces had advised against prosecution?

Why were some of the pickets approached, before the trials, to see if they would become prosecution witnesses only to be charged when they refused?

Why did the government send a message to Maurice Drake, the prosecuting counsel in the trials, saying that on no account should there be any jail sentences?

Following recent press reports that MI5 suppressed the campaign to release the pickets from jail, what exactly was MI5’s role in the political conspiracy against the pickets?

 

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