Kim Gordon
Socialist Press1978 1978-04-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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The workers movement must rally to the defence of Socialist Workers Party militant Kim Gordon, now on bail pending appeal against a 6-week jail sentence and a £150 fine.
Gordon was acquitted
two charges but found guilty by magistrate David PryceJones on a third count of using threatening words during clashes with the National Front and their police bodyguards at Lewisham last year.
The only "evidence" brought forward for this absurd charge is the Kim Gordon testimony of two senior police officers, who claim that Gordon uttered 'threatening words" through a megaphone, resulting in the stoning of a police van and Lewisham police station.
This allegation was countered by evidence from 21 witnesses, photogrpahs and even a video film.
In each case these proved that no-one had seen Gordon solicitors, a barrister, teachers and even full time union officials unanimously endorsed the view that no one used a loudhailer to PHOTO: Mark Rusher (IF L)
incite the stone throwing.
Gordon was not charged with incitement-which would have entitled him to a jury trial-but with use of threatening words.
The magistrate was therefore able to set asie the evidence of all 21 independent witnesses and declare Gordon guilty on the say-so of two policemen.
This frame up must be fought by the movement as a whole.
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