Four British pro-Palestinian activists are convicted of criminal damage relating to a 2024 raid on a factory operated by Israeli defense firm Elbit, while two of the defendants are acquitted.
Prosecutors at London’s Woolwich Crown Court say the six defendants were members of the now-banned group Palestine Action, which organized the assault on the Elbit Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, in August 2024.
The six – Charlotte Head, 30, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31 – had all denied charges of criminal damage.
Head, Corner, Kamio and Rajwani were found guilty, while Rogers and Devlin were found not guilty.
Corner, who was accused of hitting a police officer with a sledgehammer, was convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm, but found not guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
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