On Tuesday, 2 December, at the Old Bailey, Peter Martin, a 23-year-old Biafran (whose family is being bombed by British bombs), who has lived in this country for 6 years, was sent to gaol for nine months for distributing this leaflet in Brixton.
He did not assault anyone, he did not threaten anyone, he offered no resistance to the arrest. He did not write the leaflet or print it: he just handed it out. Despite a brilliant defence by QC John Mortimer, he got THE seven months simply for advertising a peaceful meeting, and two additional months since he had been bound over after a previous "technical" offence connected with the Obi Egbuna frame-up last year.
The judge, King Hamilton, had the effrontery to say at the trial that in this country "justice was colourblind". He will have to pull his wig down firmly over his ears to shut out the laughter of over a million black people when they hear that. There is a PIGS simple way to test whether King Hamilton is right or not. If Peter Martin can go to gaol for nine months for handing out 6 copies of this leaflet, then they will have to put the Dwarf board away for 99 years for distributing 15,000 copies of it. Let us together show pompous, ignorant, finger-wagging bastards like King Hamilton that although he may, for the moment, have the power of class justice to put one black militant down there are a thousand others waiting to take his place.
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