SECOND IN WEEK
Pirate Radio Conviction (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) SOUTHEND, (Essex), Dec. 4. A Southend Court imposed a £lOO fine on the second pirate radio station convicted within a week of broadcasting without a licence. The owner of the off-shore station, Radio Essex, Paddy Roy Bates, pleaded not guilty and said he would appeal.
He said the disused fort in the Thames Estuary from which it had been transmitting for 18 months was in international waters outside the jurisdiction of the court. The prosecution claimed it was inside territorial waters. The British Government has promised that the 10 commercial pirate radio stations broadcasting from old wartime forts or ships at anchor off Britain’s coast would be closed by next year.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31234, 5 December 1966, Page 22
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