‘Truth’ about drug raid
Assertions that a police drug raid, on September 5. left a Hat in Mansfield Avenue in a shambles are being maintained by its occupants in spite of the rejection of their assertions by the Minister of Police (Mr Connelly).
A spokesman for the group, Mr M. Wright, said they had sought the advice of a solicitor, and were looking at means of getting Mr Connelly to retract his statements and hold a further inquiry. “Mr Connelly has practically called us liars,” he said. Mr Connelly asked for a report after an account of the raid was printed in “The Press” on September 6. On September 19 he rejected the allegations made by the group, and said he strongly suspected that they were trying to discredit the police. Mr Wright said that he was not trying to discredit the police but to bring out the truth. “We have said they can search the flat any time they like, but not leave it in a
mess. When we complain, we are told we are just trying to stir the police. “While the report for the ' •Minister was being made we were never consulted. All he. did was ask the head of the' drug squad. “We are deadly serious about this, and we are telling the truth,” he said. “The Minister of Police is supposed to be a pillar of society and he is calling us( liars on police assumptions. He cannot say something like that without hearing our views.” Mr Wright reiterated that the drug squad had left the flat in a mess. He said it was now a matter of the word of the occupants against that of the police.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33957, 25 September 1975, Page 18
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