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Shrewsbury 24 celebrate massive victory after convictions for picketing overturned
(From left to right) Mark Turnbull, Terry Renshaw, Harry Chadwick, Eileen Turnbull, John McKinsie Jones with wife Rita McKinsie Jones and lawyer Jamie Potter, outside the The Royal Courts Of Justice, London
THE Shrewsbury 24 celebrated a massive victory today after their convictions for picketing nearly 50 years ago were quashed by the Court of Appeal.
The court found that police destruction of original witness statements made the verdicts, which sent six trade unionists to prison, unsafe.
Workers who took industrial action during the 1972 national builders’ strike for better wages and health and safety were charged with offences including unlawful assembly, conspiracy to intimidate and affray for picketing.
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