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'My son Joe faces jail, all Blair faces is an Inquiry' - mother, Sue Glenton
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Tony Blair will give evidence at the Chilcot Inquiry on Friday. The most he faces is a 'grilling'. The Inquiry brief is to 'not apportion blame'. Blair will be protected by hundreds of police, who are to form a secure zone with a 'ring of steel' around the Inquiry venue. Press reports suggest that anti war protesters will be 'kept away'.
Joe Glenton is a soldier who was sent to war. His court marshal starts this Friday. Joe faces a lengthy jail sentence after he refused to redeploy to Afghanistan. He has spoken out against the war, and he led the demonstration against the Afghan war last October.
'We have not been told where my son Joe's court marshal will be held yet' said Sue Glenton. 'They are keeping it a secret to keep our supporters away'.
Rose Gentle whose son Gordon Gentle was killed in Iraq, has campaigned for years for a public inquiry into the war. She has been denied a place at the Inquiry, as have other military families who have lost loved ones - all because Blair sent them to war.
'One quarter of the people believe that it is Blair who should be facing trial for his war crimes. L/Cpr Joe Glenton's so called 'crime' has been that he told the truth about the war, while Blair lied,' explained Nahella Ashraf, chair of Stop the War in Greater Manchester.
Nahella will be speaking along side Sue Glenton at the Solidarity and Resistance conference in Manchester |
