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A Tamil hunger striker yesterday denied tucking into a McDonald's takeaway during one of Britain's longest-running protests.
Parameswaran Subramaniyan, 28, claims he fasted for 24 days in a makeshift tent outside the Houses of Parliament as thousands of Tamils staged a three-month demonstration.
The protest caused traffic disruption in Central London for more than a month, sucked up police resources and left taxpayers with a £7.1million bill.
The Mail revealed how police surveillance teams saw fast food being smuggled to Mr Subramaniyan.
Mr Subramaniyan, a student from Mitcham, South London, vehemently denied eating a Big Mac during the fast, which he said left him seriously ill.
Speaking through an interpreter, he said: 'This is a lie to break the strength of the hunger strike and the protest itself. It is not true at all.'
The protest - which included several hunger strikes, marches, mass sit-ins and demonstrators throwing themselves into the Thames - ended after 72 days in mid-June.
Police chiefs were forced to bring in officers from boroughs across London to cope with the protest. At one point 100,000 demonstrators joined a march and rally organised by the British Tamil Forum.
Scotland Yard last night refused to discuss whether it had received intelligence that the hunger striker had been passed food.