Leonard Doyle, writing in the Telegraph on 31 May 2009, reports on the US court case where Shell executives face accusations of complicity in the judicial murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa;

"If you call off the campaign, maybe we can do something for your brother." A New York court will claim this week that Brian Anderson, Shell's former top official in Nigeria, used those words when asked to intercede with the country's military regime to save activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa from being executed.