Statement from John Bowden

Great News ! Hopefully Stillman will be seeking a career elsewhere too.

Mr Stillman equated the word anarchist with terrorist, so smearing Brighton ABC as well as condemning John to this unjust treatment. If his bizarre allegation can be so easily dismissed by the Scottish Prison Service now, why was it ever allowed to be used to persecute John ? What is to stop them using the same person spouting similar lies against another prisoner, perhaps one more easily intimidated than John ?

The Lockerbie trial showed the world the extent that the Scottish judicial system is corrupt, incompetent and politically motivated.
The Shirley McKie case showed there has been no safe convictions here using fingerprint evidence for the past twenty years, but also that only the policewoman daughter of a policeman can expect any justice.
Johns case shows the pettiness, dishonesty and vindictiveness of a system designed to break any spirit of opposition.

Many thanks to Indymedia for helping to publicise John's situation. His struggle for Freedom is not yet over, but his return to open conditions will represent a significant victory - For the right of prisoners to hold political views and against the attempts to villify the ABC.