Death sentence for cattle stranded at sea 2 months
■ HE’S ALWAYS BEEN A SECRET SUPPORTER DIDN’T SAY... SO HE COULD PAY MORTGAGE LECTURES ON ETHICS AT CITY UNIVERSITY
HUNDREDS of cows stuck on a ship in the Mediterranean for nearly two months are to be put down.
Vets have decided the 895 cattle are no longer fit for export, Spanish authorities said.
The animals set sail from Cartagena in Spain on December 18 on the cargo ship Karim Allah. But authorities in Turkey refused to let them disembark, reportedly due to suspicions they had the viral disease bluetongue.
A second attempt to unload the cattle, in Libya, failed and it sailed back to Cartagena, where Spanish authorities ordered it to dock on
Thursday. Government vets have now judged the cattle to be unfit either for transport to another country or to be allowed back in to Spain.
The Eurogroup for Animals campaign group said: ‘This is yet another wake up call to urgently end live export.’
FORMER national newspaper editor Roy Greenslade has been condemned as a ‘repulsive terrorist-loving charlatan’ after he admitted to secretly supporting the IRA during the Troubles.
The 4-year-old, who edited the Daily Mirror for 14 months in the 1990s, revealed he quietly backed the group’s deadly bombing campaign during the Republican fight against British rule in Northern Ireland – despite the attacks leading to hundreds of civilian deaths.
Mr Greenslade, a teacher of ethics in journalism at City, University of London, also defended his decision to provide surety for John Downey, a suspect in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing, in which four soldiers died, describing him as having a ‘dedication to peace’.
But his admission, in an article for the British Journalism Review, sparked anger from the families of IRA victims. Mark Tipper, brother of Trooper Simon Tipper, who was killed at Hyde Park, told The Sunday Times: ‘Professor Greenslade can’t see that a true man of peace cannot also be an unapologetic murderer... Greenslade continues to prove himself both a coward and a fraud.’
Media peers also weighed in, with Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan – a former Daily Mirror editor – tweeting: ‘This repulsive terroristloving charlatan had the gall to spend decades lecturing the rest of us in the media on ethics and morality... Unbelievable. You’re an absolute disgrace.’
Other IRA victims during Mr Greenslade’s time as a journalist included 12 killed following a blast at a war memorial in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, in 198 , and Johnathan Ball, three, and Tim Parry, 12, who died in twin explosions in Warrington in 1993. Mr Green
slade, who also worked for The Sun, The Sunday Times and The Guardian, said he kept his views secret because he thought it would damage his career and he needed to pay his mortgage.
In his article, he said he became
Deadly explosion: Cenotaph at Enniskillen radicalised as a reporter and became horrified at the actions of the Army.
Mr Greenslade said he agreed ‘about the right of the Irish people to engage in armed struggle’. He wrote: ‘I came to accept that the fight between the forces of the state and a group of insurgents was unequal and, therefore, could not be fought on conventional terms. In other words, I supported the use of physical force.’
He added: ‘I continued to keep my views on the IRA to myself. However much I believed its tactics to be valid, I could not hope to convince colleagues that the killing of civilians, albeit by accident, was justifiable.’
But Mr Greenslade also admitted he had doubts about the IRA’s bombing tactics when civilians were killed.
A spokeswoman for City University said he retired in 2018 but ‘has occasionally returned in his role as honorary visiting professor. We will review the article and see whether the university needs to take any action’.