By Anonymous, submitted on Sat, 21/04/2012 - 01:48
Robert Green FREE on 17th May!
PARTY IN ABERDEEN ON 16th – 17th May 2012
The good news has just come through from Robert that his custodial sentence will end and he will be FREE to go home early in the morning of 17th May. He received the news in the Governor’s office this afternoon and there has been much jubilation at Craiginches ever since.
He will still be under curfew when he gets home (7pm to 9am every night of the week) for 3 months and of course campaigning and so on is out but at least he’ll be able to go for walks and go on line and all the things he’s not been able to do.
Robert wishes me to say that he strongly believes it is largely due to the tremendous support he has had from so many people that he’s been let out early and asks me to say a very big THANK YOU to everyone once again. He also wishes to commend the prison staff who have been universally gracious and helpful. This has made made what could have been a much more trying time really quite bearable. He’s also made some good friends from amongst his fellow inmates with whom he’ll be keeping contact.
Another bit of good news is that the Ombudsman for Scotland is looking into the appointment of Sheriff Bowen to Robert’s trial. We look forward to further details on this interesting development.
The person who will be most pleased of all by the news of Robert’s imminent release will be Hollie who was most upset when he was sent down. It doesn’t take much to make Hollie feel insecure, which isn’t surprising considering what she has been through in her life and she hasn’t felt entirely happy since Robert has been in prison. So this news will really cheer her up!
"FREE ROBERT GREEN" so many times chanted on many a street in the past few weeks has worked! Well done everyone! Now it’s back to "JUSTICE FOR HOLLIE GREIG" – we can do it, can’t we?
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Re: Robert Green FREE on 17th May 2012
By Anonymous
The news today is that Robert is out of the prison table-tennis tournament, having been beaten at the quarter finals, so he won’t now win the coveted first prize of a Mars Bar. Well at least he won’t have to be tested for drugs – what’s someone pushing 70 doing beating a whole lot of lads in their 20s, something’s not quite right there!
Fortunately there’s no shortage of chocolate, Robert says, he’s always being given Crunchie bars and Aeros by his fellow-prisoners, they are very kind to him indeed. It’s clear to him that many of these young lads shouldn’t be there at all and it saddens him that they have received the permanent stigma of criminality for often very minor offences, or they have been wrongfully convicted in order for there to be closure on a crime, or they shouted at the Sheriff or whatever had happened, so now here they are locked up in this dreary place for usually months on end at least, really just to help keep the wheels of what he refers to as the ‘Prison Industry’ turning, which is a bread-ticket for a whole range of people who work in or are connected with the administration of such institutions. He’s thinking to get involved with his local Prison Radio Service when he comes out and is hugely looking forward to resuming his Hospital Radio work after 17th May – roll on 17th May!
We’ll need to be on our toes early in the morning on that happy day as Robert is likely to leave Craiginches between 8 and 9 am, then he’ll be heading for the station which is 10 minutes’ walk down the hill and over the bridge, so let’s make sure he is suitably escorted! He’s most likely to be catching the 9.52 via Manchester so hopefully we’ll have a good 30-40 minutes to chat to him before waving him off.
I told Robert there’s going to be street action for Hollie in London over the next couple of weeks in London (am about to call the troops…). It will be in the context of a two-week demo outside the Royal Courts of Justice under the aegis of the Campaign for Truth and Justice which can be all things to all people but the focus is going to be on the corrupt judicial system/’bent judges’ so it’s a good opportunity for anyone who has suffered a miscarriage of justice in the courts to come along and make his or her voice heard.
There’s going to be a PA system and we’ll be stopping the traffic too. Victims of the Family Court system are especially welcome to join and you can be sure we’ll be throwing a certain Scottish Sheriff and his cronies into the mix.
John Hemming MP will make a cameo appearance on Day 1 of the 10 day-demo, Monday 23rd at 3.30 pm. When I mentioned to Robert that John Hemming is coming along to our action he said he’d had a letter from John in which John had written “pressure might be put on the Governor to keep you in”. Robert had copied that to the Governor of the prison (however he did that) and he was pretty sure this had prompted the Governor to take the decision to release him!
Well any which ways, it’s all good, isn’t it?