JUDGE WILSON
Why would they conceal their political motive when they were facing the death penalty?  They wouldn't certainly have got a more severe sentence.  I can understand people, and I have no doubt people will say we didn't want to admit it was political because it would have increased our sentence.  But these men, you were present, defending, were facing the death penalty.  And there was not a word said that this had any political basis.  Was there, at any stage in the trial or on the question of sentence, it was never raised, was it?