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  • Re: Palestine Action Case Management Hearing Deliberate Mistake ?

    From billy bookcase@billy@anon.com to uk.legal.moderated on Wed Feb 18 18:41:52 2026
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    "billy bookcase" <billy@anon.com> wrote in message news:...

    The Crown has decided not to proceed with the Aggravated
    Burglary* charge against all remaining 18 defendants; with
    6 already having been found not guilty

    The Crown are however seeking a retrial on all the other
    charges, on which the jury were unable to reach a verdict

    quote:

    Heer told Mr Justice Johnson on Wednesday: "As we indicated
    at the end of the trial, we now confirm the prosecution
    intention to seek a retrial in respect of all those allegations
    which no verdict was returned by the jury.

    "That is criminal damage against all defendants, the three
    defendants on the allegation of violent disorder, and with Mr
    Corner on the allegation of causing grievous bodily harm with
    intent."

    :unquote

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/18/aggravated-burglary-charges-against-18-palestine-action-activists-dropped


    quote:

    * Aggravated burglary requires an offender to commit a burglary
    while with a weapon which they intend to use to cause injury
    or incapacitate a person. The first six defendants to be tried
    were carrying sledgehammers but their lawyers told the jury that
    they were intended to be used to destroy property at the Elbit site.

    unquote

    But if the Crown are unable to offer any evidence in respect of
    Aggravated Burglary, that the defendants *including Corner* were
    carrying sledgehammers in order cause injury, then its difficult
    to see how they can then charge Corner with GBH with intent, as
    that would require him to have been carrying a sledgehammer,
    er, in order to inflict injury.

    Shome mistake shurely ?




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