Special Report Transcript Episode 22, Section 2, Time 10:22

Common purpose was particularly controversial at that time, because the mandatory death sentence for murder was still in place. Death sentences for the members of the Sharpeville Six and the Upington 26 sparked an international outcry. // To apply the principle of common purpose in a case of murder, particularly when one is looking at the death sentence, was really I think completely unacceptable. In principle I believe it was incorrect. People have said, and I would be inclined to agree, that the common purpose principle was almost used as an instrument of oppression. And I think that it will go down in our history as a very serious mark on administration of justice in South Africa.

Notes: Death row, Pretoria.; Protest outside SA Embassy in London, March 3, 1988; Brian Currin

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