Courts for peace!

News in Brief

On 19 April, after a three-day trial, Harrogate magistrates’ court ruled that long-time peace activist Lindis Percy had ‘no case to answer’.

Lindis had been charged with ‘wilfully obstructing’ three Ministry of Defence police officers in the execution of their duty outside the spy base Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire on 16 August 2011.

District judge Jane Goodwin found the officers involved had selective memories, with inconsistencies within and between their testimonies, among many other damning deficiencies.