From left: Rosie Sinfield, defence lawyer Simon Natas, Sarah Johnson and Tim Hill
THREE protesters who blocked a road leading to the DSEI arms fair have been acquitted after a judge found their actions were reasonable.
Tim Hill, 32, Sarah Johnson, 23, and Rosie Sinfield, 28, all had a single charge of wilfully obstructing a highway dismissed at Stratford magistrates’ court today.
Huda Ammori, 23, had the same charge against her dismissed by district judge Jane McIvor after the prosecution closed its case earlier this week.
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD