acquittal of the official who threw him out.

George Rushe, who prosecuted the criminal case against Colin Simmons privately in Magistrates' Court, told The Royal Gazette yesterday he had filed notice of appeal.

Simmons, of Tribe Road 3 in Pembroke, the treasurer of the Bermuda Industrial Union, was recently found not guilty of assault, violently interfering with political liberty, behaving in a threatening manner, and using threatening behaviour at a public meeting.

All the offences were allegedly committed on Rushe, a part-time journalist who was a BIU member at the time.

Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis ruled that Rushe knew he had no business attending a special BIU meeting at the union headquarters on July 2, and Simmons used reasonable force in ejecting him.