The Stansted 15 have today had their convictions overturned after they grounded a flight due to deport 60 criminals to Africa. The group cut through the Essex airport’s perimeter fence in March 2017 and locked themselves together around a Boeing 767 jet chartered by the Home Office to transport people from UK detention centres for … Read more
Protesters taken to court after preventing a deportation flight from taking off from Stansted Airport today challenged their convictions at the Court of Appeal. The ‘Stansted 15’ cut through the Essex airport’s perimeter fence and locked themselves together around a Boeing 767 jet chartered by the Home Office to transport people from UK detention centres … Read more
Kyrese Cashley, from Whitley, Berkshire, swiped at Steven Amor’s neck with a Stanley knife on March 17 this year A 17-year-old boy who slashed a man’s throat during a pub argument has been jailed for four years – and had his anonymity stricken by a judge. Kyrese Cashley, from Whitley, Berkshire, swiped at Steven Amor’s … Read more
Gerry Adams’ historic convictions for attempting to escape from the Maze Prison in the 1970s was today overturned by the UK’s highest court after it ruled that his detention was unlawful. The former Sinn Fein leader successfully argued his two 1975 convictions were unsafe because his detention was not ‘personally considered’ by Willie Whitelaw, the … Read more