Hackney Gutter Press
Object
Newspaper
Production date
1972
Object number
2026.22
Physical Description
Hackney Gutter Press newspaper, No. 3: Internment Comes to Hackney
Material
Paper
Dimension
Height (Cover): 339mm
Width (Cover): 214mm
Width (Cover): 214mm
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HACKNEY GUTTER PRESS
NUMBER 3
Dockers Black
Hackney Depot
East End Womens
Conference
Grayling Road
Squat
Demonstrate against
the Mad McElligott
Stoke Newington 8
Hands off Mapledene
INTERNMENT COMES TO HACKNEY
We might feel that what's been going on in Ireland since internment was introduced in August last year is a very far cry from what's happening here in Hackney. In fact the recent trial of four men and women at the Old Bailey who were arrested from a flat in Hackney has uncovered some goings-on that aren't so very different from what's happening in Northern Ireland at the moment.
The four men and woman are all members of Saor Eire (Free Ireland), a section of the Irish Republican movement. They were picked up last November and were then taken over to Belfast and were interrogated in the Palace Barracks, a scene of many tortures and brutalities over the last few months. Their interrogator was one Harry Taylor, a Special Branch cop, who has been responsible for most of the interrogations and brutalities at Palace Barracks.
They were then brought back to England where they were charged with being in possession of arms and ammunition. They were kept inside prison for eight months on remand awaiting trial. The four men were kept in the top security wing at Brixton, which means they were locked up in their cells for 23 hours a day.
The woman, Marjorie Allan, was kept in solitary in Holloway.
When the trial Eventually started at the beginning of June, Martin Crawford's case was dismissed almost immediately, as the only evidence against him was a statement supposedly made by him whist he was being held at the army barracks at Girdwood in Belfast. He was interrogated by the R.U.C Special Branch, who punched him in the chest and stomach, boxed his ears and shoved a loaded, cocked pistol into his mouth.
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO
NUMBER 3
Dockers Black
Hackney Depot
East End Womens
Conference
Grayling Road
Squat
Demonstrate against
the Mad McElligott
Stoke Newington 8
Hands off Mapledene
INTERNMENT COMES TO HACKNEY
We might feel that what's been going on in Ireland since internment was introduced in August last year is a very far cry from what's happening here in Hackney. In fact the recent trial of four men and women at the Old Bailey who were arrested from a flat in Hackney has uncovered some goings-on that aren't so very different from what's happening in Northern Ireland at the moment.
The four men and woman are all members of Saor Eire (Free Ireland), a section of the Irish Republican movement. They were picked up last November and were then taken over to Belfast and were interrogated in the Palace Barracks, a scene of many tortures and brutalities over the last few months. Their interrogator was one Harry Taylor, a Special Branch cop, who has been responsible for most of the interrogations and brutalities at Palace Barracks.
They were then brought back to England where they were charged with being in possession of arms and ammunition. They were kept inside prison for eight months on remand awaiting trial. The four men were kept in the top security wing at Brixton, which means they were locked up in their cells for 23 hours a day.
The woman, Marjorie Allan, was kept in solitary in Holloway.
When the trial Eventually started at the beginning of June, Martin Crawford's case was dismissed almost immediately, as the only evidence against him was a statement supposedly made by him whist he was being held at the army barracks at Girdwood in Belfast. He was interrogated by the R.U.C Special Branch, who punched him in the chest and stomach, boxed his ears and shoved a loaded, cocked pistol into his mouth.
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO