TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Friday July 15, 1994

Argyll nurse ‘handled roughly’

A Tarbert nurse found herself stuck in the middle of a high seas clash between Norwegian Coastguards and Greenpeace activists at the weekend.

Sheena Chainey, 32, from Kintarbert Lodge, near Tarbert, is the ship’s nurse on the Greenpeace vessel Sirius which was boarded by coastguards for interfering with Norwegian whaling operations.

Sheena’s father Bernard said that several of the crew, including his daughter, were ‘roughly handled’ by the coastguards during the incident. Sheena only recently returned to Europe after working with Burmese refugees in Bangladesh.

Mr Chainey said this was the third time his daughter has been detained while involved in Greenpeace protests.

She was arrested by the French Foreign Legion in the South Pacific while trying to prevent nuclear testing and by police in Belgium during a protest against chlorine manufacturing processes.

Sunday night’s clash, involving three armed coastguard vessels, followed two other incidents involving Greenpeace and the Norwegian whaler Senet.