Horacio Herrera is holding a black-and-white photograph of his father, Guillermo, who was murdered in Chile in the early days of Gen Augusto Pinochet's regime.
Standing behind police barricades with 300 anti-Pinochet campaigners outside Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south London, Mr Herrera is waiting for Gen Pinochet to make his first court appearance. He speaks of the "healing" process that lies ahead for the people of Chile and for the relatives of the murdered and the disappeared. "There is a wound in Chile that must be healed. But we have to clean the wound before we can heal it and bringing Pinochet to justice is part of that," he says. "The point is justice and to be proved guilty under the law."
Waiting in the cold, the chants of "Free, free Pinochet" clash with the banging of a conga drum from the anti-Pinochet campaigners penned behind their barricades on the opposite side of the road as the drum keeps in time with their shouts of "murderer", "assassin".
It is a battle of wills to be heard above the blowing of whistles every time a protester from either side thinks they have caught a glimpse of Gen Pinochet's police escort entering the car-park.
Shortly after 1.30 p.m. the 300 pro-Pinochet supporters realise they have missed their chance to show their loyalty when he is brought into the court by a side entrance. His arrival, draped in a blanket while sitting in the back of a green people-carrier car, reminds one protester that this is a "defining moment" in international law and for human rights.
The pro-Pinochet supporters have only one message for Britain. It has betrayed them and should send Gen Pinochet back to Chile where he can stand trial among his own people. "It was a situation of war in Chile," says Sebastian Doren, who is a lawyer from Santiago now living in Barcelona. "How can the UK betray someone who is clearly a friend of the UK?" The 200 or more police officers and the armed police unit seem relieved that this first court appearance passed off peacefully.