Summary. Chief Executive of Scottish Legal Aid Board appeared in front of Sheriff in private. Angie continues her evidence.
(Over the week-end Ulla was feeling unwell, and yesterday (Monday) requested a doctor which the prison refused. So the court police sent a request for a Greenock doctor to come to the court) The Chief Executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board met with the sheriff and the lawyers behind closed doors. SLAB has decided to pay Ulf's travel expences. The sheriff then made some comments in open court about the procedures for getting an urgent review of SLAB decisions, without the Chief Exec. turning up at courts all over the country! The court adjourned to 2pm for Ulla to see a doctor and for the medication to take some effect.
Angie back in the witness box. Angie continued from Friday talking about how the British Trident system was illegal in terms of its targeting and it's destructive power. She described the effects of using Trident on Moscow.
Angie then wanted to show the Tri-denting it video. The PF objected on the grounds that it included interviews with people who could not be cross-examined. Angie did not insist on it being shown but explained that it illustrated the complete openess of the campaign. She then went on to the attempted dialogue with the Government before the direct action campaign began. She read part of the last letter to Tony Blair which describes the effect of one Trident warhead on Polyarni, a town in Russia. Throughout the interchange of letters the government has failed to give a single example of how a Trident missile could be used lawfully.
Copies of the pledge were then handed out to the jury and Angie read it out to them. Court was then adjourned for the day.
NOTE: Angie's full defence (without the cuts made by the court) is on the Trident Ploughshares website www.gn.apc.org/tp2000. The things that Angie wasn't allowed to say can be brought out by the expert witnesses.