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Activists have arms factory charges dropped
SEVEN activists who occupied an Israeli arms factory in Kent have had their charges dropped.
The group broke into the Instro Precision factory — owned by Israel’s largest private weapons firm Elbit — last August, blockading the door and forcing its closure for two days.
On Thursday, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) threw out charges of aggravated trespass — saying there was “not enough evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction.”
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