Bryant case for new FO staff
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• The new Foreign Office team is to be urged to back the campaign to release Essex owner-driver Steve Bryant from a Moroccan jail.
Stephen Jakobi, director of UK legal pressure group Fair Trials Abroad, is arranging a meeting with the Foreign Office to ask it to take another look at the case.
Jakobi has been encouraged by Foreign Secretary's Robin Cook's comments on ethics and foreign policy. But he will seek clarification of the Government's stance on injustice and human rights when he meets the Foreign Office representatives. New evidence could prompt the release of Martin Crow (pictured) from a French jail within the next two weeks (CM 15-21 May). Suzanne Crow, the wife of the Bradford owner-driver held on remand for suspicion of drug smuggling, recently visited her husband and says a new witness has emerged who could prove his innocence.
Crow, who was contracted by Bradship European Transport in Bradford, was close to suicide in his first weeks in jail, his wife says. "He missed our two kids desperately, he felt as if this was the end of the world. However, his letters are now relatively jokey," she says.