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Palestine Action activists face retrial over break-in at Israel-linked defence firm
The Crown Prosecution Service will retry six activists on unresolved criminal damage charges after a jury failed to reach verdicts in a break-in at the Elbit Systems UK factory.
- The Crown Prosecution Service told Woolwich Crown Court on Wednesday it will pursue a retrial for all charges with no verdicts, affecting six Palestine Action activists.
- Palestine Action activists allegedly used a prison van as a `battering ram`, wore red boiler suits, and smashed equipment during a raid on Elbit Systems UK near Bristol on August 6, 2024.
- At a trial that concluded on February 4, jurors cleared all six defendants of aggravated burglary after more than 36-and-a-half hours of deliberation, but failed to reach verdicts on criminal damage and grievous bodily harm charges against Samuel Corner.
- The trial has been provisionally listed to start on 16 February next year, with aggravated burglary charges dropped against 18 further defendants amid tight security and at least two dozen police officers present, while the public was initially held outside the court gates.
- A judge recently ruled the Home Office's decision unlawful, and at least 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to international legal actions involving ICJ and ICC.
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