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Mr Simon Cordell will state; “that he does not see how any person can preserve his role off
               being an organizer, as he was only being helpful and polite and curites, in his friend’s place
               of residence towards the police, while being a invited in as a visitor. It was his friend’s
               birthday and he had been invited for dinner. At no point did he take part in any form of Anti-
               Social behaviour, nor did he organize or hire any equipment and he was not present to attend
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               a rave on the 9  June 2014.
               Mr Simon Cordell will state; “that he did attend a friend’s birthday dinner party as a guest.”
               Aaron King states: “as a male quickly locked the gates upon apparently seeing my marked
               police vehicle. This male was Mr. Cordell
               “Mr Simon Cordell will state that he could not have locked the gates as he was only a guest
               and at no point in time had the keys to the lock on the gates.
               Aaron King states: “It was initially Mr. Cordell who said he could not entre and it was him
               who was very much in charge of deciding if police were going to be let in.”
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               Mr Simon Cordell will state; “that he was asked by police if he would let them in to which
               he explained he was not the occupier and never had any keys. At this point in time one of the
               occupiers went of to get the keys and let the police in.”
               Officer Aaron King States: “Finally after close to three hours later, the group dispersed, and
               I was informed that social media was indicating the rave would now be Epping Forest.”
               Mr Simon Cordell will state; “that he did not go to Epping Forest on this date.
               Officer Aaron King States: “The whole incident took a vast number of resources to police
               and there were two arrests for drugs possession and two for drunk and disorderly behaviour.
               One officer was injured with a deep cut to his elbow requiring first aid by the Police FME
               and emergency calls whilst answered were subject to delay.
               Mr Simon Cordell will state; that he is sorry to hear that any police officers had been hurt
               and understands the offenders faced criminal prosecution for the offences they had caused.
               Statement of Jason Ames Police office 206011 Statement made 15/08/2014 Referring to
               date 09 August 2014 Millmarsh Lane
               Officer Jason Ames States: “on the 9th August 2014 he was driving a marked police car in
               the company of A/IN SP King at 2221 hours.”
               Officer Jason Ames States: “they were informed of CAD 9717 which relates to intelligence
               received that states there was likely to be an illegal open-air rave.”
               Mr Simon Cordell will state; “that he attending the occupied premises to which he had been
               to before to visit a friends, who were living and residing on the premises at Millmarsh lane in
               an occupied building and out back tents who are an occupation, which is a collective of
               people. Mr Simon Cordell understands that they had been treating the premises as their home
               since around 16/05/2014, on the 15/02/2015.
               Mr Simon Cordell will state; “that he remembers this day clearly as he had been invited to a
               friend’s private birthday party who live on the private self-contained land in question along
               Millmarsh Lane.
               Mr Simon Cordell will state; “that he requests to see all information in regard to CAD9717
               as he believes this contains evidence of his innocents in the events in question.
               Officer Jason Ames States: “The intelligence received started that there was likely to be an
               open-Air rave.
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