To think that the Justice system is completely f***ed?

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Six Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary over break-in at UK subsidiary of Israeli defence firm.
So you can now break into a factory using a van, and attack people with sledgehammers?
I just can't believe it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo

One could suppose that they are supporters of Palestine Action too.

I’m Jewish and I avoid going in to central London in a Saturday. People are obsessed with Palestine. I don’t see marches supporting Ukraine anymore and Russia are still bombing, where’s the outcry re Iran and Sudan from the leftists?

This verdict just sums up all the fuckery.

So let the twats get away with doing whatever they please? Seriously?

Didnt some members of the group take whips to the incident? Surely that proves planning and intent to harm humans? Whips are not much use against physical property.

I cant get my head around this ( lack of ) verdict. I hope will be sorted at retrial.

It is ludicrous it was all caught on video.
They planned to break in and do wilful damage the guy swung a sledgehammer at the police.
I despair they are as guilty as sin! Who the heck was on the jury.
They need to be locked up …people were jailed for tweets and this crew are being found not guilty!
What a shit show !
What punishment will they receive?

They did assault someone, a policewoman had her spine broken by a sledgehammer. So far not dealt with or perhaps that doesn't matter since they were protesting about Palestine.

Tweet something awful and prison.

Smash into a factory with a van. Use sledgehammers to damage property. Use a sledgehammer and actually break a policewoman's spine. So far no prison sentences.

Two tier system. Palestine and Israel conflict which has ended isn't for us to sort, we can't anyway. Protesters might be better off going to Gaza to help out with rebuilding.

Have you not read anything about the case before commenting?

They attacked a police officer with a sledgehammer. One of them was therefore on trial for GBH with intent (among all of the other charges). The jury failed to come to a verdict - there were a lot of attempts to influence the jury from outside.

I do not understand why the Palestinian protests are allowed to carry on .

We were in Leeds a few weeks back and a big protest about Kurds in Syria …why again it’s that going on!

Bottles were flying and it was very disturbing.

We shouldn’t have this here all the ME crowd making it feel unsafe in our city centres. Just no.

Yes it makes you wonder what the jury thought his intent was in carrying a sledgehammer, if not aggravated burglary and harming someone……..

Wth is going on

I've no idea but if they've committed a crime and the CPS says to prosecute then they will.

Read the route to verdict guidance they were given for count 4:

realmedia.press/filton-case-route-to-verdict-1/

They had to decide whether it was GBH, GBH with intent, ABH, or whether he was not guilty because he believed he was acting in defence of others.

If 6 of them thought it was GBH and 6 thought it was GBH with intent then no verdict would be reached. This is the down side of bringing alternative charges.

We can see the pitfalls of not providing alternative charges with count 1 - aggravated burglary. The jury did not have the option of considering a plain old burglary charge so if they decided the defendants' behaviour did not meet the 'aggravated' test then they could only return not guilty.

Perhaps the jury was biased, we will never know. I don't think so because no verdict means they couldn't agree. Probably there were some people with very strong views on both sides of what is an intensely polarising issue.

We do know that like every other jury they were picked randomly and had no choice but to turn up and serve on whatever case they were allocated.

It's been a long trial, conducted under intense public scrutiny. Never mind the posters, the jurors have had to walk through protests on their way in to court and at times have heard evidence against a background of noise from the protest. They will have been told to avoid the media but can hardly have avoided knowing that there was a judicial review going on, or that there were big protests and mass arrests in support of PA, or that there were hunger strikes FFS! Honestly I don't know how I would deal with the kind of pressure they must have been under.

And then they come out of this long, gruelling process and face a barrage of appalling things being said about them. People want them named and shamed, they want pictures so they can see what race they are. They want the jury locked up, strung up.

I think people don't want juries, they want scapegoats.

There will very likely be retrials on at least some of the charges and there are several more trials to come for Filton and Brize Norton. There will no doubt be future trials for future offences. Any of us could be picked next time.

Dorset Police have put out a statement on social media saying people must remember a woman with a fractured spine is still a victim. Good for them.

No it wasn’t a protest, it was a burglary.

And did you miss the woman who took a sledgehammer to the back?

They did commit a crime and the CPS DID prosecute them.

Its the blatant jury bias based on the fearmongering from the antisemites brigade

I don't know, I wasn't in the court. You could be right.

Well, technically, it's now defamatory for you to say they committed this crime when they were acquitted. Funny, isn't it.

The law is an ass and these jurors were assholes.

The fact that breaking the law has few consequences in the UK is old news to those of us from other countries. It's reassuring in one way ( if i ever inadvertantly commit a crime I feel confident I'll never spend a day in prison) and deeply unsettling in another ( If I'm ever a victim of crime I'm also fairly certain the perpetrator won't)

They have been acquitted of aggravated burglary and three of them have been acquitted of violent disorder.

None of them have been acquitted of criminal damage, three have not been acquitted of violent disorder, sledgehammer guy has not been acquitted of GBH.

Five of them have been released on bail, pending potential retrial. Sledgehammer guy has been remanded in custody.

Oh that’s good news , thank you 👆

You've entirely misunderstood.

It's not whether the perpetrator intended to cause injury prior to the event, it's whether his actions were intended to cause injury.

Hitting someone with a hammer is, obviously, intended to cause injury.

This.

Let's not forget her.

It was about Palestinians and action for Palestinians against Israel.

To some, nothing else matters, you see them each week in London screaming about Palestinine, which they consider ok to do thousands of miles from the area. Shame they don't actually help out actual Palestinians over there rather than cause mayhem here.