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Peace protester must wait for verdict in court battle
A SHEFFIELD peace protester must to wait to find out if his legal fight against the police's use of David Blunkett's anti-terror laws is successful.
A two-day hearing into police stop and searches used against Kevin Gillan at a demonstration in London ended in the High Court yesterday without a decision being reached.
Lord Justice Brooke and Mr Justice Maurice Kay reserved the right to make a judgement on the case – the first of its kind – in which lawyers representing Mr Gillan, aged 26, of Stead Road, Sharrow, claim the police misused their powers.
It was revealed Home Secretary Mr Blunkett had endorsed police orders to randomly search people under anti-terror legislation in London for more than two years.
Mr Gillan's lawyers claimed he was 'humiliated' after being stopped and searched on his mountain bike on his way to a protest at Europe's biggest arms fair at the ExCel Centre in the Docklands area of the capital last month.
Speaking after the hearing ended yesterday, Mr Gillan said: "I am not too surprised that the judges are taking their time to consider this, I was told that they would probably need it.
Mr Gillan and London based freelance journalist Pennie Quinton, 32, were represented in a joint legal challenge by campaign group Liberty.
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