March for Thomas
PA Auckland About 50 supporters of Arthur Allan Thomas, the man convicted of the Crewe murders in 1970, marched from Albert Park to the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday. The chairman , of the Thomas Retrial Committee, Mr D. J. Payne, tied a wreath of orange and yellow dahlias, to Ihe main door of the Court, which did not sit yesterday. The wreath carried the inscription: “In memory of justice, executed here April 16,
.1975.” That date marks the day Thomas was convicted for the second time of the Crewe murders.
Mr Payne said that. the march and wreath-laving would be held annually until Che truth was established and Thomas’s name cleared. The march will occur on the nearest Court sitting day to April 16 in future. Mr Payne and Thomas’s father, Mr A. G. Thomas, led the march of placard-carrying protesters. Thomas’s mother took part in a wheelchair.
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Press, 18 April 1979, Page 6
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151March for Thomas Press, 18 April 1979, Page 6
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