NatWest Three campaign rolls on despite plea  · Guilty pleas
extracted 'under extreme duress' · Defence claims crime was
merely lapse of judgment  The so-called NatWest Three may be
pleading guilty to stealing $7.3m through a fraudulent Enron-
related deal, but relatives and friends are fighting a rearguard
battle to rescue their tarnished image as judicial martyrs.  The
trio - David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby - face 37
months each in prison and will have to repay the money they
stole from their former employer through a complex deal
involving the sale of an investment in an Enron-related venture
at a knockdown price.  Mulgrew's mother Trish Godman, who is
deputy speaker of the Scottish parliament, suggested the men
were pleading guilty "with deep reluctance" under extreme
duress. "My son, Gary Mulgrew, and his two colleagues are the
victims of an unjust extradition treaty which breaches human
rights and a Texan judicial system which has bled them
financially dry and coerced them into a plea barg