Pensioner in anti-US protest to be prosecuted
Independent [UK]
06/19/06
The Government faces a test of its new anti-terror legislation after deciding to proceed with charges against a pensioner arrested while protesting at an American communications base. Seven weeks after becoming one of the first individuals arrested under a little-noticed clause in the Serious Organized Crime and Police Act, Helen John, 68, of Keighley, west Yorkshire, was charged yesterday with criminal trespass and bailed to appear next week before magistrates in Harrogate, north Yorkshire. Mrs John and a fellow peace campaigner, Sylvia Boyes, 62, were arrested on 2 April while crossing the sentry line at Menwith Hill, the US communications base in the Yorkshire Dales...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1090871.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
06/19/06
The Government faces a test of its new anti-terror legislation after deciding to proceed with charges against a pensioner arrested while protesting at an American communications base. Seven weeks after becoming one of the first individuals arrested under a little-noticed clause in the Serious Organized Crime and Police Act, Helen John, 68, of Keighley, west Yorkshire, was charged yesterday with criminal trespass and bailed to appear next week before magistrates in Harrogate, north Yorkshire. Mrs John and a fellow peace campaigner, Sylvia Boyes, 62, were arrested on 2 April while crossing the sentry line at Menwith Hill, the US communications base in the Yorkshire Dales...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1090871.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 20. Jun, 14:05
