Whilst his appeal was on-going, he surfaced in France and, in April 1978, was arrested there by French police near Cannes. He went to the USA and then Canada, where he was caught up in deportation proceedings. He handed the child to his landlady and, without even taking a jacket, fled the house. A man who claimed to be with ‘Customs and Excise’ called at his Oxford lodgings where Marks was babysitting while his girlfriend was out.
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Shortly afterwards, Howard Marks disappeared. In March 1974, the Littlejohn brothers broke out of Mountjoy Prison: Kenneth fled to Holland where he gave his famous interview to the BBC which caused such a rumpus. The nervous twitch he has in his right eye gets worse as the ‘trial’ wears on, and it is noticable that he claims to remember very little from the time of his arrest to now …….Ĭustoms Officers in England have arrested a man who could blow the lid off an embarrassing British Intelligence operation against the Provisional IRA, when he answers drug smuggling charges in London later this year. Overall, his ‘evidence’ is far from satisfactory. īut, again and again, he is wrong about crucial details – for example, when he names Henry McNamee as being involved in a ‘job’, McNamee was actually in jail when it was supposed to have taken place. He again and again refuses to accept that he said certain things to the RUC but, when documents are produced to prove otherwise he accepts the contents of those documents and claims that he remembers very little about the interviews he had with the RUC but states that the only thing he is really clear about are the events themselves. He describes the most appalling killings with a casualness that is unreal but, again and again he is caught out for telling lies. For more than twenty days the namings go on, followed by court examinations and cross-examinations, during which Kirkpatrick refuses to turn around to look at his questioners. And also names his brother-in-law and his best friend Gerard Barkley. Harry Kirkpatrick tells how he used his father’s driving licence to hire cars for military operations, and names his sister as being involved.
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Based on a full transcript of the Kirkpatrick trials, the story of how these convictions were obtained shows why the ‘Supergrass System’ is a pale shadow of justice.īy Derek Dunne.
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On their appeal against those convictions could well rest the future of the ‘Anglo-Irish Agreement’ Twenty-six men were convicted on the word of Harry Kirkpatrick.
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And whether Captain Wiseman or his like are ‘available’ or not, that is the message that Irish Republicans will continue to deliver to both Westminster and Leinster House. RSF and the 32csm and, indeed, all who took the time to attend this picket are to be congratulated for highlighting the fact that there will never be ‘normal relations’ between Britain and Ireland whilst Westminster continues to claim political and military jurisdiction over six Irish counties.
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RSF and the 32csm on John Rogerson’s Quay in Dublin, Wednesday 19th August 2009, protesting against the British presence in Ireland. The banners and flags carried and displayed by the protestors drew a continuous and loud level of support from passing motorists and from those on foot, with cheers and clenched-fist salutes the order of the day! The Special Branch operatives maintained a vigil for the duration of the picket at the ship’s gangplank, ensuring that the protesting Republicans could not board the ship. Eight Special Branch operatives, some using cameras, were present throughout the 3-hour picket (as were six uniformed members of the State police) and, as usual, names and addresses of the protestors were taken. The protestors, comprising members and supporters of Republican Sinn Féin Poblachtach and the 32csm, demanded from a member of the ships crew that they be allowed make a verbal protest to the Captain of the ship, a Lieutenant Commander Carl Wiseman, but were told that he was “unavailable”. Irish Republican picket on British warship, Dublin, Wednesday 19th August 2009.īetween approximately thirty and forty Irish Republicans held a three-hour picket today, Wednesday 19th August 2009, on John Rogerson’s Quay in Dublin, at the presence of a British warship, the HMS Mersey, which is docked here until tomorrow. PICKET ON BRITISH WARSHIP HMS MERSEY, WED 19th AUGUST ’09 : Brief report and photographs.