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Anti-abortion campaigner convicted for breaching clinic buffer zone
Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, was found guilty at Poole Magistrates’ Court of two counts of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order

AN ANTI-ABORTION campaigner was convicted today for breaching a “buffer zone” outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic.

Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, was found guilty at Poole Magistrates’ Court of two counts of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two occasions in March 2023.

She was handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £20,000 towards court costs, along with a £26 victim surcharge.

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