Dave Llewellyn
 Dave Llewellyn     (political activist) | |
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| Party | Alba Party |
Dave Llewellyn is a campaigner for Scottish independence and supporter of the Alba Party whose Twitter page states:
"This account suffers from something called Twitter Tourettes. If I see something I say it. These things can be offensive but are in no way criminal."[1]
Hope Over Fear
At a Hope Over Fear event on 19 September 2021, Dave Llewellyn spoke powerfully in support of the imprisoned blogger Craig Murray.[2]
Transcript
This is a transcript of Dave Llewellyn's YouTube speech:
| CMJ Campaign with Dave Llewellyn |
"This is a speech I never hoped to be making. My friend Craig Murray is now sixteen days away from being halfway through an eight month sentence for telling the truth. Basically, on 16 March 2020 I stood outside Edinburgh High Court talking to Craig. Craig had just arrived the day before from reporting on the Assange trial down in London. And he was the only journalist allowed in that court. The only one, none of the mainstream media were allowed in. He got in because, basically, he was friends with the family. So basically he comes up to me and just inside twenty to nine in the morning he says:
'Davie, I don't know how it is possible or people like Julian Assange and Alex Salmond to have the weight of the state on top of them. I don't know how I would survive.'
"Twenty minutes later we walked into the court and two police people came up to us and said you cannot go in, you've been banned from the court by the Judge. I could go in but Craig had to go. The police sergeant came up to me and said 'Don't worry Davie he's not in any bother'.
"Well he's now halfway through an 8-month sentence because he actually reported what was going on in the court. He reported stuff that most people weren't allowed to hear. He didn't actually report what was illegal, but nobody else reported the defence case. He was the only person – I sat beside him – and he sat with his wee notebook. Craig he's a wee bit bad in his sight and he writes with his left hand. And he he sat scribbling everything absolutely perfectly, every witness that came up, everything, he noted it all down. I didn't do that, I was making vigils because I wasn't allowed to use my phone in the court. So he was writing it all down. And there we have it.
"The next thing is he gets charged with this jigsaw identification, which nobody has ever been jailed for in the history of the world. The last people jailed in the UK for contempt of court in the media was 50 years ago, and the last time in Scotland was 70 years ago.
"All Craig Murray did was to report the defence case that none of the mainstream media would actually do. Which means that you were all being told lies...that you were not able to make a judgment. Well the jury heard what I heard, and the same as Craig Murray heard. And guess what, they came to the same decision. They came to the same verdict. So there was something not right there. So they decided OK let's do something about it.
"Now Lady Dorrian is the second highest Judge in Scotland. She sat in that court on the Alex Salmond trial.
