"Palestine Action activists hit police officer with sledgehammer, court told" - man hits woman with sledgehammer and fractures her spine.

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'Attack happened after armed gang in jumpsuits broke into Bristol defence factory intent on causing damage, jury hears.

Palestine Action activists hit a female police officer with a sledgehammer after bulldozing their way into a defence factory, a court has heard.

The gang, wearing jumpsuits and armed with whips, fireworks, an axe and a paintball gun, allegedly rammed an old prison van through the gate at Elbit Systems UK, Bristol, in August last year.

Woolwich Crown Court heard on Tuesday that Sgt Kate Evans suffered a fracture to her lumbar spine after she was beaten with a sledgehammer while she lay on the ground. Samuel Corner, 23, denies causing grievous bodily harm with intent.'

Continues here https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/18/palestine-action-activists-hit-police-sledgehammer-court/

Well, reading how they prepared for the attack on the factory (colour-coded teams, assorted weapons for the "assault team", extra team to take care of security, transportation), you can take a guess what the curriculum was.
Reminds me of German RAF in the 1970s, travelling to Lebanon to be trained by Palestinian factions.

Back in the day of the 'peace movement' actvists engaged in non violent direct action and passive resistance training; but those days have gone and now violent direct action is legitimised, and even lionised.

Absolute fucking filth.

Indeed. It's more anti-establishment than pro-palestinian.

If that is how they go about their politics then it doesn't hold up much hope for the sort of society they would create if given free reign.

That's certainly something you can observe in places like Russia, China, North Korea. Ironically some of the most successful socialist enterprises are the Israeli kibbutzim.

Let’s not forgot that the Palestine Action supporters refused to call off a protest and mass arrest the Saturday after the Manchester synagogue attack when the police asked them to so that police resources could be freed up to protect Jews.

All of the Omnicause activists groups that have sprung up these last few years are full of empty headed, self-righteous, useful idiots who are too dim-witted to see they're just being used by scum like this person nationally and scum like Hamas internationally.

So long as it plays to their misplaced sense of 'morality' they'll keep fronting for the thugs and terrorist'.

And so civilization ends not with a bang but by handwringing, self-sabotaging wimps. 🤯

And it is not the omnicause that is meeting their needs, it is the behaviours it permits.

Hmmm, I’m sure it was a great wheeze all donning different-coloured boiler suits and being in teams. What fun! What pathetic excuses for human beings.

I wonder who is defending them….

Well at least you’re consistent.

For anyone who still thinks that this attack was in any way justified, here's footage of Samuel Corner bludgeoning the police officer with a sledgehammer while she screams.
https://x.com/channel4news/status/1993051191132225818?s=61&t=U9XrcF693-JpMxeIueYG7g

In the meantime Zarah Sultana is taking to twitter to moan about the proscription.

Fuck anyone who supports that group.

Exactly.

Can't bring myself to watch, but shame on Sultana.

As there's finally a verdict ( or two) I thought those of you who do care about due process and justice might be able to read this

"Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Mahmood are left bereft" 🙌

"As the trial finished at Woolwich Crown Court of the six Palestine Action activists who entered the Filton factory to destroy Israeli killer drones, Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Mahmood are left bereft of a single guilty verdict in the case on which they relied heavily to label Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation."

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SLEDGEHAMMER

It is worth stating that the tabloid stories and right wing meme of “a policewoman’s spine was fractured” was always utter nonsense. As the defence closing speech stated:

The prosecution have said it was a fracture to the spine, a deliberate choice of words which although technically accurate, conjure up a break, a snapping of the spinal vertebrae. Maybe that’s what the jury had in mind until they saw the CT scan – it was actually an injury that wasn’t obvious. The doctors looking at the first X-rays didn’t identify any bone damage, nor in an MRI later.

The injury didn’t require surgery and Sergeant Evans was advised to take painkillers and do physiotherapy. The agreed facts state from medical evidence that you’d expect such a fracture to heal in six to twelve weeks, with full healing in three to six months, and no long-term consequences.

The unfortunate policewoman suffered no damage at all to her spinal cord. She had a possible hairline fracture to the wing of one vertebrae. That there was any fracture at all was never definitive from the X rays and MRIs. Whether it reached the bar of grievous bodily harm was disputed, how it was caused was disputed and whether there was any intent to harm was disputed. The refusal of the jury to convict was completely consistent with the evidence heard in court."

Worthwhile reading whole article

www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/02/filton-acquittals-demolish-starmer-and-cooper-lies-about-palestine-action/

So it's ok to break a policewoman's back with a hammer that you brought along presumably to injure people with, so long as you can say the fracture is only technically a fracture and it'll heal, and in six months your victim's ok?

JFC.

I take it that the plank Murray has never had a spinal fracture, knows nothing of cryptic fractures, & of course hasn't troubled to inform himself any better when facts might impede his fountain of gormless snark.
A fracture need not be displaced to cause excruciating pain & the spinal cord itself need not be injured to leave a victim with neurological problems, the commonest of which are pain & weakness. How does Murray imagine the nerves of the spine function? Everything goes down to the cauda equina & then back up?
What an odious little berk he is.

Edited to fix typo

Actually nauseated by that article.

Wtf is wrong with someone who has managed to convince themselves that this was in any way excuseable or acceptable because of the cause? Normal, healthy people don't think like this.

Agreed.

I just landed here, and I hadn't read back, nor have I read the article you refer to, but I just knew it would be Murray.

Its not the first time his very deeply odd attitudes to women have been noted.

Absolutely fucking gross.

"destroy Israeli killer drones,.." - so he's not biased then. 🙄

whether there was any intent to harm was disputed
Okay, right, next time I get the urge to clobber someone with a sledgehammer, I'll just go right ahead and expect an acquittal provided I do no lasting damage and say 'there was no intent to harm'?

Because that's how it works, right?

Someone please tell me that I'm missing something, and not living in a bloody dystopia.

The policewoman's view versus Craig Murray's view.

Well, that's alright then!

Interesting, my photo has been tagged as 'sensitive' despite it, according to Craig Murray, being absolutely not a man about to break a woman's spine with a sledgehammer.