Six Palestine Action activists who had been accused of aggravated
burglary of Elbit Systems in August 2024 have been cleared of those
charges by a jury.
They were also charged with criminal damage and violent disorder;
some of these charges they were found not guilty and some there was
no verdict returned.
This includes the person who was accused of hitting a policewoman
with a sledgehammer - no verdict was returned on the GBH charge
relating to that. I am told there is some doubt as to the accuracy
of the prosecution's story, and that the defence video evidence
put the whole incident in quite a different light to the video
evidence shown by the prosecution.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo
On 2/4/26 13:04, Jon Ribbens wrote:
Six Palestine Action activists who had been accused of aggravated
burglary of Elbit Systems in August 2024 have been cleared of those
charges by a jury.
They were also charged with criminal damage and violent disorder;
some of these charges they were found not guilty and some there was
no verdict returned.
This includes the person who was accused of hitting a policewoman
with a sledgehammer - no verdict was returned on the GBH charge
relating to that. I am told there is some doubt as to the accuracy
of the prosecution's story, and that the defence video evidence
put the whole incident in quite a different light to the video
evidence shown by the prosecution.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo
This appears to be a convenient result for the government. It will allow them to quietly drop the prosecutions against 1000s of peaceful
political protestors without considering the political challenge to terrorist proscription. Even given our governments have abolished jury trials, it would still have been a terrible political look to convict
these people.
Six Palestine Action activists who had been accused of aggravated | burglary of Elbit Systems in August 2024 have been cleared of those | charges by a jury. ||[. . .] |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo ||[. . .] |
On 2026-02-16, Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> wrote:
On 2/4/26 13:04, Jon Ribbens wrote:
Six Palestine Action activists who had been accused of aggravated
burglary of Elbit Systems in August 2024 have been cleared of those
charges by a jury.
They were also charged with criminal damage and violent disorder;
some of these charges they were found not guilty and some there was
no verdict returned.
This includes the person who was accused of hitting a policewoman
with a sledgehammer - no verdict was returned on the GBH charge
relating to that. I am told there is some doubt as to the accuracy
of the prosecution's story, and that the defence video evidence
put the whole incident in quite a different light to the video
evidence shown by the prosecution.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo
This appears to be a convenient result for the government. It will allow
them to quietly drop the prosecutions against 1000s of peaceful
political protestors without considering the political challenge to
terrorist proscription. Even given our governments have abolished jury
trials, it would still have been a terrible political look to convict
these people.
If you're right then the government can't breathe too big a sigh of
relief just yet, given the CPS is going ahead with retrials.
If they
choose more sensible charges then they will probably get convictions.
We'll find out on Wednesday apparently.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2j458gy1eo
On 16/02/2026 12:34, Jon Ribbens wrote:
On 2026-02-16, Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> wrote:
On 2/4/26 13:04, Jon Ribbens wrote:
Six Palestine Action activists who had been accused of aggravated
burglary of Elbit Systems in August 2024 have been cleared of those
charges by a jury.
They were also charged with criminal damage and violent disorder;
some of these charges they were found not guilty and some there was
no verdict returned.
This includes the person who was accused of hitting a policewoman
with a sledgehammer - no verdict was returned on the GBH charge
relating to that. I am told there is some doubt as to the accuracy
of the prosecution's story, and that the defence video evidence
put the whole incident in quite a different light to the video
evidence shown by the prosecution.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo
This appears to be a convenient result for the government. It will allow >>> them to quietly drop the prosecutions against 1000s of peaceful
political protestors without considering the political challenge to
terrorist proscription. Even given our governments have abolished jury
trials, it would still have been a terrible political look to convict
these people.
If you're right then the government can't breathe too big a sigh of
relief just yet, given the CPS is going ahead with retrials.
Those are against the Palestine Action activists who were simply
prosecuted for criminal damage.-a It was nothing to do with terrorism or that organisation being proscribed because it wasn't at the time.
If they
choose more sensible charges then they will probably get convictions.
What more sensible charges than criminal damage which seem entirely on point?
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