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11/2/2009 11:10 PM |
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Jason has to say goodbye to his 2 little girls and loving wife, then travel alone by train.
Mike has a busy day( running a village pub the locals have become very vocal). The day starts with an interview and photoshoot with the Bournemouth Daily Echo. En route, serveral telephone interviews with journalists and a hurried visit to the Southampton BBC studios, where the cameras waiting.
Everyones aware of the time constraints, so, its straight on to Gatwick, where an ITV news crew are waiting to film the handover. This could be a first. Everyone heads to the Hungarain airlines desk Malev. Here we meet a very nice lady from Special Branch, who soon located her opposite number, a very nice lady from Interpol. All was well until she noticed the T.V. crew - who likened the situation to something from a James Bond film.
Interpol lady then commented that she didnt realise this was a high profile extradition, so she will have to brief the team.!
The Hungarains appear aggitated and Interpol lady said she did'nt realise there would be T.V. cameras. She says her team (3 or 4 huge muscley guys who look like a bullet wouldnt penetrate them) are from Hungarain special forces, and if cameras are present they should be wearing their balaclava masks. The news crew get excited - one says they are not going to stop us filming masks will make good t.v.. they are in Britain now, thats not how we do things. This is Britain and its Gatwick Airport. Therefore they forget, everyone and everything is being monitored on T.V. Within a couple of minutes half a dozen heavily armed police officers, (All with Sussex Police written on their caps and their I.D. numbers clearly visible and no mention of masks) arrive on the scene.
Things are hotting up, if Mike and Jason were'nt scared enough, this was not reassuring them of the parity that our Politicians had promised and they were still on English soil.
With that the Hungarian Interpol lady says, we must go and in the blink of an eye they are gone behind the screens to the departure area. Lets hope the parity appears in Budapest.
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