§ Mr. HawkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what 205W representations he and the Attorney-General (a) have made and (b) plan to make to the Greek Government to ensure the repayment to the British plane-spotters arrested in Greece of their bail sureties. [137478]
§ Mr. Mullin[holding answer 10 November 2003]My right hon. Friends the Foreign Secretary and the Attorney-General have made no representations to the Greek Government to ensure repayment of the British plane spotters' bail money.
The Greek court released the bail money on 22 May 2003. One of the 12 has now received his money. The others are currently in dispute with their Greek lawyers. one of who has taken out an injunction to prevent this money being released until a solution is agreed. This is now a private, legal dispute between the plane spotters and their lawyers.