Today was the 10th Anniversary Conference in Glasgow for the Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission.

William Beck who has been fighting for 28 years for justice, had to pay £102 to go to this conference just so that he can ask questions of the Justice Minister and others at this conference. Wullie will have his own report on how things went for him from inside the conference.

See: www.justiceforwulliebeck.webs.com

Ed Milne was also inside at the event to ask his own questions, as well as John and Cathy from MOJO, whom we met with outside the venue.

Outside the venue, me, Frank, (my husband) Louise (Wullie's wife) His two daughters and one of their boyfriends, plus Louise's brother stood outside with placards and leaflets to hand out to the public.

We were a small gathering but a very effective one. It has given us a much needed boost to continue to go out to the public with Wullie's case and other cases too. We will be doing leaflet drops again soon.

We met Chris Shead and other lawyers and officials.

We saw so many people we recognised. Many of them took the leaflets Wullie had made, which was brilliant.

Cars hooted their horns to show support.

Most of all we met the public, who I have to say where extremely supportive. We had no problem at all of getting rid of the leaflets. In fact people were coming up to us and asking for them. When we ran out of leaflets, we gave people Wullie's website to look at.

Several people actually came back to tell us they had already looked at the site and were appalled at what had happened in Wullie's case.

We did take pictures and they will be added to the site very soon.

Louise handed Kenny MacAskill a leaflet, and he took it and thanked her. We saw him and many other official looking people reading the leaflets.

Wullie actually had to come out and ask us for some leaflets to hand out inside as people were asking for them.

Members of the public came up to us with their stories of injustice and also to say they knew injustice did happen. People were genuinely interested. Take note documentary and news media, the public are indeed interested in these stories and want to know more.

We spoke to Scottish, English, Irish, Norwegian and Dutch people about miscarriage of justices.

We even saw Frank McGarvey, an old Celtic and St Mirren player, who came round to have a look at the placards.

A member of the Norwegian Criminal Case Review Commission came down and spoke with us and took photo's also

As did some photographer from inside the event.

An editor came along and spoke with us and went to her office, looked at the site, then came back to take photo's of us all. She said she admired the fact we were standing up for what we believed in.

What was particularly nice was the fact that Wullie's own family were all there, and watching his wife and daughters tell people who asked all about their fight for justice, was particularly humbling.


Meeting the public and talking to them about Wullie's case and many other cases too was absolutley brilliant. We had quite a gathering of people at times and they never stopped coming in the 5 hours we stood on our peaceful, but information issuing day.


It really has made me and the others want to do more of the same, not protesting as such, but telling people face to face about what is happening to people. It really was an effective day and so many more people now know about Wullie's case.


We have already had many hits on his site with people looking to see what it is all about.


I hope the next time we do this, that others will become involved. Today was a sort of experiment to see how things went, and we couldnt believe how quick many hundereds of leaflets went. And not once did we find one lying around on the streets.


We met many kind and funny people today and it restored my faith that there are people who do care and who do want to help. They just do not know how to help. W

We really need people to email, Fax, write and telephone Alex Salmond, The First Minister of Scotland and The Justice Minister, Kenny MacAskill MSP regarding the Howes Family.

Brian and Kerry Howes face being extradited to US from Scotland when they have NOT committed a crime in Scotland. This couple have 4 children and another baby is due any day now. ALL these children will be taken into care and probably adopted if these people are extradited for something that is NOT A CRIME IN SCOTLAND. The children will suffer terribly since they have no other family to look after them if their parents are sent to Arizona.

There also seems to be a punishment overkill in this case. Not only do they lose their business, their home, their children, get no support from UK courts, sent off to Arizona, which BTW is a nasty State, and face 20 years in jail plus a huge fine of $250,000.
Scotland should not be taking part in this at all.

The address of the site with the case on it is

http://extradition.org.uk/

See this article about the case: US jail threat to Scots family
http://www.sundaypost.com/postindex.htm

LISTEN TO TWO OHONE CALLS ABOUT THE CASE BELOW::
DEA and US Extradition Corruption

This is a conversation with a US DEA officer from Arizona called Don Sherard who likes to brag about operations that he has been involved in that indicts people in the UK and around the world based on deception.

The deception in this case is severe and the methods used are in my opinion and other legal minded people I have spoken to about this conversation and others tell me it may be part of a wider corruption stemming from the UK extradition treaty with the US that does not require any evidence for extradition.

This conversation and others with news media and solicitors shows a disregard for a proper process when the US prosecutor asks for extradition of a UK citizen


http://extradition.org.uk/2009/01/08...

Here is another of several conversations with the US DEA a man called Don Sherard who was at the centre of my wife’s and my extradition.

Listen to this call as it shows that the US had no evidence of Conspiracy in our indictments and worse still Cleveland Police and the US DEA conspired with each other and planned in this Conspiracy to illegally have computers and other property sent to the US in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 without a warrant as required by the extradition act.

Further to this conspiracy Cleveland Police officer Gillian Matthews and Rebecca Driscol and DSI Duffy along with DC Thomas and Cleveland Police Officers not named and some not yet known along with Don Sherard of The US Meth Lab investigation in Phoenix Arizona in Marico county and several not named and some unknown also conspired to Have my wife and I extradited contrary to the laws of the UK and US.

Just have a listen and make up your own mind up.


http://extradition.org.uk/2009/01/09...

PLEASE WRITE, FAX, PHONE AND EMAIL THE FIRST MINISTER AND JUSTICE MINISTER OF SCOTLAND. WE NEED TO FLOOD THEM WITH PROTESTS.


Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
Telephone: 01467 670070
RNID TypeTalk calls welcome
Fax: 01779 474460

Email: FirstMinister@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Kenny MacAskill MSP
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
Telephone: 0131 661 9546
RNID TypeTalk calls welcome
Telephone: 0131 348 5012
Fax: 0131 348 5944
Parliament Office E-mail: Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parli
 ament.uk

http://justiceforwulliebeck.webs.com...

Read the news article about a friend of mine on the site above. You can also comment on this story on http://shirleymckie.myfastforum.org/

Karen