KEELER IN COURT

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30275, 30 October 1963, Page 22

KEELER IN COURT

Hearing Of Charges

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 28. Screaming and jeering women greeted 21-year-old Christine Keeler today when she left the Marylebone Magistrate’s Court after facing conspiracy and perjury charges.

Police put up crush barriers as Keeler and her female codefendants, Paula HamiltonMarshall and Mrs Olive Nadia Brooker, left the building through a side door.

Today was the fourth day of the hearing—which is to decide if the case will go to trial at a higher Court. The three women are charged with conspiracy to obstruct the course of justice in the case of Aloysius “Lucky” Gordon, a Jamaican who was sentenced to three years' gaol after being convicted of an assault on Keeler. They were also charged with perjury during the trial of Gordon at the Old Bailey. A fourth defendant, a West Indian truck-driver, Rudolph Truello Fenton, aged 39, is charged with conspiracy to obstruct the course of justice. The prosecution’s case is that the three women and Fenton had concealed the fact that another West Indian, Raymond "Pete” Camacchio, and Fenton himself had been present during the alleged assault by Gordon on Keeler. It is also alleged that Keeler’s injuries, said to have beei»> inflicted by Gordon, were, in fact, the result of a struggle between Keeler and John Hamilton-Marshall the brother of Pamela HamiltonMarshall, earlier the same evening. Today Paul Michael Mann, a racing-car driver, told the Court that he had listened to a conversation in Keeler’s flat, from which he had gathered that John Hamilton-Marshall had given her “a bloody nose.” Detective - Sergeant John Burrows produced statements made by Keeler, Miss Hamil-ton-Marshall and Brooker in the Gordon case. Two of them —Keeler's and Brooker’s—were read in part in Court They described what happened during the alleged assault by Gordon and Keeler’s injuries. Detective - Sergeant Burrows said he had no idea on what evidence the Appeal Court acted in freeing Gordon.

The hearing was adjourned to tomorrow.