Rival to Fair Trials Abroad
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A former Fair Trials Abroad case worker has set up a rival organisation to help truck drivers Fight charges when they are arrested abroad.
Gudrun Parasie left Fair Trials in December last year by what she and its director Stephen Jackobi describe as "mutual consent".
Now London-based Parasie has launched her own help service, European Legal Advice. If will initially be free and she hopes that a sponsor may come forward to top up any donations she receives.
Parasie, who trained as a barrister and is a German citizen, says she will help people of nationality charged outside their own countries. A number of people she was helping while at Fair Trials have asked her to carry on advising them, she says. Her former boss Jackobi says: "Anyone is free to set up an organisation offering advice."