On 16 December, the high court in London ruled that a group of anti-HS2 campaigners who tunnelled next to Euston train station should face a retrial.
Originally, charges of aggravated trespass were thrown out by Highbury magistrates’ court in October 2021 (PN 2657). District judge Susan Williams ruled that HS2 Rebellion could not have been disrupting construction... because construction hadn’t started at the time the tunnellers were evicted.
The high court has now decided that clearing the area also counts as ‘construction work’.
Topics: HS2