11.01.23
Not guilty
Disruption did not amount to public nuisance
(Motivation, human rights, proportionality, necessity defense disallowed)
Represented by Laura O'Brien of HJA
3 self represented
#protesttrial #InsulateBritain
Listening to the science:
"there is no capacity in the carbon budget for opening up new production facilities of any kind, whether coal mines, oil wells or gas terminals."
Guilty of aggrevated tresspass
#protesttrial #nonewcoal #nonewgas #NoNewOil #protest
"In Oct 2021, district judge Williams dismissed the charges..? on the basis that HS2 was not carrying out any construction work on the site at the time the charges were levelled against the protesters."
"In their ruling, the judges found that the term “HS2 construction” encompassed clearing the site in preparation for the construction works to start including the eviction of the protesters and that Williams’ ruling was “irrational”."