Ref: A00-300995 Case No. 871626 Macpherson II
Volume I, Pages 1-1, Thursday 8th June, 1989

Page 1.1
(The waiting jury was brought into court and sworn after due
right of challenge)

Charge to jury
THE CLERK OF THE COURT:  Members of the jury, the prisoner at the
    Bar, Panos Koupparis, is charged on an indictment containing
    two counts.  In the first count he is charged with blackmail,
    the particulars of offence being that between the 1st day of
    January 1987 and the 15th day of May 1987, with a view to
    gain for himself, he made an unwarranted demand of US $15
    million upon the High Commissioner for Cyprus, acting on
    behalf of the Government of Cyprus, with menaces.   In the
    second count he is charged with attempting to obtain property
    by deception, the particulars of offence being that on the
    14th day of May 1987 he attempted to obtain dishonestly from
    the High Commissioner for Cyprus, acting on behalf of the
    Government of Cyprus, £25,000 in money with the intention of
    permanently depriving the High Commissioner for Cyprus
    thereof by deception, namely by falsely representing, (1)
    that his true name for practical and everyday purposes was
    Symeon Cambanellos; (2) that he then held a genuine intention
    to assist the Government of Cyprus to detect poison injection
    generators.
         To this indictment he has pleaded not guilty and it is
    your charge to say, having heard the evidence, whether he is
    guilty or not guilty.

(Mr. Temple opened the case on behalf of the prosecution)