RICKY TOMLINSON went to Westminster yesterday to demand an end to a 35-year-old injustice.
The Royle Family and Brookside star called for a public inquiry into his imprisonment for acting as a flying picket during the building strike in which trade unionists confronted the then Tory government.
”Will we give up on this?” he said. “My a--- we will.”
He was joined by MPs, miners leader Arthur Scargill, and union chiefs campaigning for the “Shrewsbury Two”. They all demanded that any probe should be provided with government, police and MI5 security files relevant to the case, and investigate alleged links between building bosses and the Conservative administration.
“All we want is to be exonerated,” Mr Tomlinson said. “Atrocious lies were printed about me and my family. It is too late for a retrial but we want to know the truth.”
He was jailed in 1973 along with fellow flying picket Des Warren, now dead, following the previous year’s building workers strike in which they had travelled from site to site urging employees to walk out.
