Peach supporters picket embassy

Press, 26 April 1984, Page 2

Peach supporters picket embassy

PA Wellington The British and New Zealand Governments have been criticised for not doing enough to bring to justice the killer of a Napier schoolteacher, Blair Peach. Mr Peach was clubbed to death after an anti-facist demonstration in the London suburb of Southall on April 23,1979. Ten witnesses said he was killed by an officer of the London police’s special patrol group. On Tuesday, members of the New Zealand Friends of Blair Peach committee picketed the British High Commission in Wellington and presented a letter to the

deputy High Commissioner, Mr John Fawcett. In the letter the committee said that it wanted to register “a voceferous protest that five years after the killing of Blair Peach the British authorities have failed to bring his killer to justice.” “In view of the New Zealand Government’s refusal to intervene in the circumstances surrounding the controversial death of one of its own citizens at the hands of an official of another State, it is left to concerned New Zealanders to continue the campaign for justice," said •the letter, signed by the chairman of the committee, Richard Hill.