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Fair Trials man on trial
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• A former charity book keeper appeared at Richmond Magistrates Court last week charged with 12 counts of theft.
Hugh Philip Cornish was charged with stealing a total of £12,400 from seven different victims, all of whom were making donations to the Fair Trials Abroad Trust, where he worked as a book-keeper.
The largest single charge was the most recent, involving the theft of .£8,000 between 1 February 1995 and 30 June 1996.
Among the victims was the United Road Transport Union, which lost £450 between 3-31 March 1994.
The Fair Trials Abroad Trust became a pressure group in 1992, started by Stephen Jakobi to protect the rights of Britons facing legal proceedings outside the UK. Since then the trust has helped in several notorious trials, including those of a number of hauliers.
Cornish's defence counsel David Purcell asked magis
trates for an adjournment because he had only just been served with the prosecution's papers.
Prosecutor Rosalind Wardell registered no objection.
The case was adjourned until 16 January. Cornish, from Watermill Way, Hanworth, was released on bail on the condition that he does not contact any of the prosecution witnesses.