to have ed earlier this year, stand for re-trial.
retrial then they will dangerous precedent in British law.
According to lan
MacDonald the barrister for Newton Rose the 1968 Appeal Act states that a person can only be put in jeopardy for crime once; the sole reservation to this is new evidence being brougnt torward The DPP has no new evidence and is arguing for a return to old common law which allowed people to be tried more than once for the same offence. This would never-ending persecution those who, for some reason, gain the enmity of the police. Meetings Campaigners for Newton are planning a series of public meetings Trovenou London and areas of Britain wnere there are large black communities along pickets and various other protest actions Newton and his sup. porters insist that he is THE DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions has won the right to appeal to the House of Lords Newton Rose, a black East London youth whose murder conviction was overturn If the five ancient Law Lords, due to meet on 14 June to hear the submissions agree to a be creating a new, innocent of the murder of Tony Donnelly, supporter of the National Front.
They say that this is a frame up by the local Hackney have particularly vicious reputation harassing the black community. Witness HOr example, the police ignored the evidence ot Roxanne Walden who asserted in court that she saw Donnelly atby TOUI white men The Hackney police war against the local black youth. During Sumer d disturbances, Socialist Challenge received many eye-witness counts of the unilateral violence of the police One group attacked a youth leaving him in a pool of blood with cop dashing back him final hard kick the head and running off again.
It is against this back ground that Newton's supporters charge Det. Inspector Goodal. Det Sergeants Coomber and Deaney and Det Constables Holloway and Miles with having framed up Newton.
Fair While it is doubtful if any black person can get a fair trial in this case the interference of the judge in the jury was uncovered If it had not been discovered that the judge had wrongly instructed the jury to stop deliberations and give verdict minutes then Newton Rose would still be serv ing a life sentence for a murder he did not com. mit.
The police and the courts must be given another chance to get Newton Please write to the Home Office, the Direc tor of Public Prosecu. TOMS and the Lav Lords and support ac. tivities of the campaign.
Contact Newton Rose Action Committer for full details of the case with a conation toossiee They can be reached c/o 76 Stroud Green Road Lon. don N4 and tel 01-272 488