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Man cleared over ‘7/7 bombers are innocent’ DVD
A MAN has been acquitted of sending a DVD to families bereaved by the July 7 attacks claiming the four suicide bombers from Yorkshire were “innocent patsies”.
Prosecutors said John Hill also sent a letter to John Hyman, telling him his daughter Miriam did not die in the Tavistock Square bus blast but was murdered by the security services at Canary Wharf in London.
But the 63-year-old was found not guilty of two counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice by posting six copies of the DVD to the foreman of the jury and one to the judge presiding over a 2008 trial at Kingston Crown Court linked to the suicide bombings.
Jurors at Hill’s trial at Southwark Crown Court in London were told this week that the packages were intercepted by court staff before they reached the intended targets.
They were traced by DNA and fingerprinting to Hill, who was living in Carrick Street, Kells, County Meath, in Ireland.
Annabel Darlow, prosecuting, said the “central thrust” of the film was that the four who had been identified as the 7/7 bombers were innocent men who had been set up by the authorities and murdered.
She said: “It was argued in the film that the explosions on the Tube and on the bus in Tavistock Square were not caused by bombs from the rucksacks but, in fact, the Tubes and the bus had been pre-rigged by the powers-that-be with explosives.”
Jurors rejected her case against Hill and cleared him on Thursday, a court official said.
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CllrChris
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 04:37 PMI can't believe there are only two comments (one deleted by mods! Wonder why?) on this article. Contrary to "D"s denigrating comments of John Hill I have to say that if Mr Hill is right then it was absolutely right that he tried to tell people involved with this trial. I'm glad the Jury seems to agree with me. BTW - the name Maud'Dib refers to a kangeroo mouse in the world of Dune - the hero of which novel took that name and fought against the powers of evil. It's a bit harsh of "D" to make out this meant Maud'Dib was a militant Islamic sympathiser. I wonder if "D" properly read the story?
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deeArr
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 09:26 PMI don't understand. Attempted murder is still a crime, so I would have thought attempting to pervert the course of justice by directly contacting a jury concerning an ongoing case is still a crime whether you failed by the effort of the court office or not. It's the intention here that matters. JAH's material was well into the public domain with a somewhat biase mosque distributing 2000 copies and any no. of conspiracy download sites. Yes, I have watched it. The oh-so-true fact that JAH (or the more militant Islamic side reference "Muad'Dib" ala Frank Herbert's novel Dune which revolves around a Jihad, get the picture?) did managed to mail his beliefs to the family of victims without absolute, irrefutable proof makes me feel sick. As a father of children I can think of no worse way to open up the hurt again. He's a 100% proof wierdo (just visit his website), really, cut him in half and it says WIERDO all the way through, though doing so may interrupt his quest for the Ark of the Covenant, but then again should be no probs for a Jedi (you think I'm joking?) and I think that's what his own jury cleared him on, that plus an impressive beard and some rough handling by the authorities. Even if he's right, the means do not justify the ends. Not all wierdos mean harm but not all are harmless. Rant over. D.
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