25 July 2003
Dear Ms PERCY
Subject: CONDITIONAL BAIL
As you are aware, on Wednesday 16th July
2003 you were remanded on conditional bail by Harrogate Magistrates
Court. The conditions of your bail are that you are "not to
go within 15 metres of Menwith Hill boundary except on the first
Saturday of each month between 1.45 and 3.15 pm for the purpose of
attending a Quaker prayer meeting". These conditions, unless
varied or withdrawn by the court, are in force until your next
appearance before that court on Monday 18th August 2003.
I am taking this opportunity to inform you
that the Ministry of Defence Police have measured 15 metres from the RAF
Menwith Hill boundary at various locations around the station.
These measurements have determined to us that the four public roads that
are immediately adjacent to the four sides of the base fall within 15
metres. This is also the case for the majority of the grass verge
that is directly opposite the Main Gate entrance. Please be
advised that as stated in the actual wording of the bail conditions, our
measurements have been taken from the boundary of the
station.
Please be further advised that if, at any
time, you drive or allow yourself to be carried as a passenger in a
vehicle, or if you traverse the roads that are immediately adjacent to
all four sides of RAF Menwith Hill by any other means, the Ministry of
Defence Police will consider you to be in breach of your bail
conditions. If you pursue such a course of action you will render
yourself liable to arrest.
Please consider this information carefully
when determining the necessity for yourself to be in close proximity of
RAF Menwith Hill. My advice would be that you should stay well
outside of 15 metres of the station boundary until such a time that the
current legal proceedings against you have concluded.
Yours Sincerely
S S Barlow
Chief Inspector
D/Senior Police Officer
Lindis was present on Tuesday night at the
weekly CAAB demonstation at Menwith Hill - having walked over fields to
get to the Main entrance so avoiding being spuriously arrested again.
The MDPA came out with their tape measure and measured what they said
was 15 metres. Lindis stood on the grass verge opposite the
Main entrance - in exactly the same place where the week before she was
arrested but not detained. On that occasion the custody
officer at Harrogate Police Station refused to accept her detention ....
CAAB will continue to work to uphold our
human right to peacefully protest despite the extraordinary behaviour of
the Ministry of Defence Police Agency.
Anni Rainbow and Lindis Percy
Joint Co-ordinators
CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES (CAAB)
8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K.
Tel/fax no: +44 (0)1943 466405 0R +44 (0)1482 702033
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the only
thing that ever does." Margaret
Mead
