Bail conditions set by the NT Police
The latest bail conditions set upon myself (PARIAH Coordinator, Mick Lambe) prevent me from attending "protests" and force me to report to a Darwin Police station twice a week.
Given that NT Police have dropped all charges relating to their first attack on NAP members, this interference by Police, in legal matters involving another Police attack is entirely unjust.
Police did not arrest me at Raintree Park. (12 October, 2002) They waited until (24 October, 2002) just after I'd finished uploading NAP's version of the NT Police attack.
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NEWSFLASH: Mick Lambe arrested by napmob 11:00am Thu Oct 24 '02 comment#36011 Melbourne Indymedia phone: 0415162525 Email NAP by clicking here Just in.... Micky Barry, Ema Birkeland Corro and Nicolette Burrows appeared in the Darwin Magistrate's Court flanked by supporters this morning in relation to charges laid by police on the 12th of October. After court, the trio went with Mick Lambe, coordinator of PARIAH to the Darwin Local Police Office so that he could report in, as per bail conditions. The NAP crew were surrounded by 8 police officers. Mick Lambe, was arrested in relation to the incident in Raintree Park on the 12th. He is currently in police custody at the Berrimah police station. NAP members are concerned for his safety. The NT Police Watchhouse at Berrimah can be contacted through police communications on (08) 8922 3344. Funny that the latest report about the 6th smoke-in was uploaded just a few hours before Mick's arrest. |
I'm also prevented from conferring with my Codefendants Gary Meyerhoff and Stuart Highway during Court proceedings, by their bail conditions set by Magistrate Trigg.
Essentially the success of the NAP legal team has led to us being divided and silenced in Court, by undemocratic means.
These onerous bail conditions were set by the NT Police and a Magistrate accused of bias.
Where else but in the Northern Territory, would bail conditions be used to stop codefendants conferring in Court? We do not consider any of the court appearances where these 'conditions' were applied to be legitimate.
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Divide and Conquer
Having isolated NAP members the State then set out to destroy the solidarity of the NAP defendants.
A lawyer had previously offered his services to one member, who had agreed with NAP to accept the lawyers advice, but not his representation. The lawyer did not contact NAP despite our requests.
The lawyer claimed to have a constitutional argument prepared that would assist NAP regarding the so-called Parliamentary Invasion.
We were surprised to see the lawyer (a Markus Spazzapan) accosting the aforementioned and isolated defendant in Court, just before a hearing concerning the Parliament incident.
We were told later he had spoken to the NAP member asking if he could say a few words on their behalf.
This ruse enabled Markus Spazzapan to take the Defense's seat where he claimed to the Court that he now represented our member. He did not.
Markus Spazzapan appeared to us, to be an unethical (and egotistical) shyster, who had pressured and conned an isolated and vulnerable member, with glib lawyer spiel.
We asked (through an intermediary -- due to our bail conditions) that our member get rid of Spazzapan. This was agreed by our member, but Spazzapan would not be deterred.
We were able to confirm our belief that Spazzapan was a pushy, unethical ambulance chaser, the following morning in Court...
...where Spazzapan appeared again, to bully our member into letting him talk about his bail conditions in Court that morning.
We were unable to intervene due to these bail conditions and could only listen as Spazzapan continued to berate our member, telling them they didn't have to listen to us.
