MYSTERY: Mike Gunnill, a book, a courier and a third party
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Who was the mysterious 'third party' who asked Mike Gunnill to get a copy of '60 Reasons' using deceit?
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Kololi wrote: Even if the McCanns did employ him to do this Mr Bennett was in control of his own decisions.
We're not talking about a breach of law, but a possible contempt of court. This allows the judge great latitude in deciding whether contempt has occurred, and he may decide that under the circumstances a greater contempt of the process was behind it all.

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Ross wrote:Kololi wrote: Even if the McCanns did employ him to do this Mr Bennett was in control of his own decisions.
We're not talking about a breach of law, but a possible contempt of court. This allows the judge great latitude in deciding whether contempt has occurred, and he may decide that under the circumstances a greater contempt of the process was behind it all.
Precisely Ross. He was not distributing it as in handing it out off his own back, he was assisting someone allegedly to do research.
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intent or not
Is 'intent' the critical angle that the courts would be looking for here ? or just the breach ?
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Stella wrote:And if we want to split hairs. One shows intent, the other does not.
We are looking at the mens rea now?
Mr Bennett owns up to actively having to track a leaflet down with the intention of supplying it to Peter Pumkin, or Dolly Daydream or whatever name Mike Gunnill was using, in exchange for money.
I see intention to sell a leaflet there and that's not including the intention (that was plastered all over this forum and others at the time) to supply a load more to Sym so that she could sell them on his behalf.

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