MR WILLS
Yes, indeed.  To that extent, the attack was directed against members of an opposing political party.  I have looked at a couple of judgements.
	Mr Lax raised the point of innocence.  The PAC matter, the amnesty decision AM5939/97, and 5784/97 and 0293/96, those were PAC people who granted, had more of a cover by policy, but essentially they were just told to go and attack whites.
	They went into a night club and just shot randomly into a nightclub and injured and killed certain persons, and they were granted amnesty because it was in a political context.  I submit that there is a difference in this instance, in the sense that their authority was more direct, however, the indiscriminate nature and the proportionality of the attacks, is far  - sorry the proportionality in this instance, isn't as extreme as it is in the attacks, those attacks on clearly persons who they don't even know in Newcastle.
	At least in this instance the attack was directed at a known area where political opponents came from.  It also, I think the other point to bear in mind is, whilst we don't know what happened, we clearly know that the attack didn't go discriminately against houses.  There is no report of that.