the harassment of peaceful protestors associated with brian haw continues. allegations of psychiatric problems, unlawful stops and searches, intimidatory surveillance, dodgy court hearings. on and on it goes. the police still haven't tried barbara tucker in open court for any of her alleged 60+ socpa offences, instead relying on constant intimidation to try and wear her down and remove her by other means.
this follows on from my report at 
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/353554.html
barbara tucker appeared at horseferry road magistrates court this morning to answer a charge of 'obstructing a police officer in the course of their duty' arising from events which were apparently not captured on cctv at charing cross station when steve jago accompanied her for a bail hearing relating to an alleged 'obstruction of the highway' outside downing street on the afternoon of the big 'stop the war coalition' demo on august 5th.
the court hearing was short. the crown prosecution service were asked to explain why barbara and steve were being tried separately for events which were clearly linked. not only the magistrates, but even the court clerk said that it should obviously be a joint hearing. the cps alleged that the main reason was because barbara tucker needed psychiatric assessment. this was a further shocking abuse of process. it was completely wrong to mention this in open court after police had been forced to record 'no further action' on barbara's file after failing to show any good reason to submit her to a mental health assessment on saturday ( http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/353554.html). the magistrate adjourned the case and set a date for a pretrial review in two weeks time and after steve jago's case tomorrow morning. it is likely steve's case will also be adjourned in order to be treated jointly although the cps will press for separate hearings. check indymedia for further news of that outcome.
in the meantime, the harassment continues.
steve jago, who was staying over at parliament square tonight in support of brian haw, set off to trafalgar square to get a pizza. he was stopped opposite downing street by two 'ministry of defence' constables. they wanted to search him under section 44 (the terrorism act). he asked them what reasonable suspicion they had, and they claimed they didn't need any. he refused the search until they give him some reasonable reply, and they called an inspector (mod inspector coleman - although he unlawfully refused to identify himself to steve at the time) who said "arrest him". steve was taken to charing cross police station where they then conducted a search, but they didn't give him any stop and search form, and instead claimed that the search was now on 'police and criminal evidence' grounds. he was 'reported for possible summons' for willfully obstructing a search (terrorism).
barbara had gone up to charing cross to try and find out what was happening, and the two of them were then followed my more police while they went and got their pizza before returning to the square.
and on and on and on.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/353554.html barbara tucker appeared at horseferry road magistrates court this morning to answer a charge of 'obstructing a police officer in the course of their duty' arising from events which were apparently not captured on cctv at charing cross station when steve jago accompanied her for a bail hearing relating to an alleged 'obstruction of the highway' outside downing street on the afternoon of the big 'stop the war coalition' demo on august 5th.
the court hearing was short. the crown prosecution service were asked to explain why barbara and steve were being tried separately for events which were clearly linked. not only the magistrates, but even the court clerk said that it should obviously be a joint hearing. the cps alleged that the main reason was because barbara tucker needed psychiatric assessment. this was a further shocking abuse of process. it was completely wrong to mention this in open court after police had been forced to record 'no further action' on barbara's file after failing to show any good reason to submit her to a mental health assessment on saturday (
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/353554.html). the magistrate adjourned the case and set a date for a pretrial review in two weeks time and after steve jago's case tomorrow morning. it is likely steve's case will also be adjourned in order to be treated jointly although the cps will press for separate hearings. check indymedia for further news of that outcome. in the meantime, the harassment continues.
steve jago, who was staying over at parliament square tonight in support of brian haw, set off to trafalgar square to get a pizza. he was stopped opposite downing street by two 'ministry of defence' constables. they wanted to search him under section 44 (the terrorism act). he asked them what reasonable suspicion they had, and they claimed they didn't need any. he refused the search until they give him some reasonable reply, and they called an inspector (mod inspector coleman - although he unlawfully refused to identify himself to steve at the time) who said "arrest him". steve was taken to charing cross police station where they then conducted a search, but they didn't give him any stop and search form, and instead claimed that the search was now on 'police and criminal evidence' grounds. he was 'reported for possible summons' for willfully obstructing a search (terrorism).
barbara had gone up to charing cross to try and find out what was happening, and the two of them were then followed my more police while they went and got their pizza before returning to the square.
and on and on and on.
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