MEP CALLS FOR COURT TO DISMISS NEW MERIDEN TRAVELLER APPEAL
25th
March 2013
West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire has slammed travellers for
abuse of process as they lodge another appeal to stay on Greenbelt lane.
The travellers, who have a site at Meriden’s Eaves Green
Lane, were told last year that they needed to move off the site by the 31st
March 2013.
The developers on the Eaves Green Lane site have lodged an
application to the high court for an extension to the injunction. The council
have stated they will strongly resist the application.
The case will be heard tomorrow at 9.30am at Birmingham’s
High Court.
Nikki Sinclaire MEP, who has supported the Meriden RAID group
since the start of this saga over 1000 days ago, has spoken of her anger at
this abuse of process,
“This is simply an abuse of publically funded legal aid.
The travellers have had their chance time after time in
court to make their case, yet they’ve lost every time.
They now must accept the order of the courts as prescribed
by law.
This is nothing more than an attempt to string out the
inevitable”.
Ms Sinclaire has stood shoulder to shoulder with local
residents in opposing the unlawful development of Greenbelt land, including
joining the group at their protest site on numerous occasions, even through the
night.
