Eight activists appear in court over break-in at Israeli defence firm’s UK site

Eight pro-Palestine protesters person appeared successful tribunal aft being charged implicit allegedly breaking into an Israel-based defence firm’s tract successful South Gloucestershire.

Elbit Systems UK’s tract adjacent Patchway, Bristol, was allegedly attacked by members of Palestine Action successful the aboriginal hours of August 6, the Old Bailey heard previously.

Sean Middlebrough, 32, Aleksandra Herbich, 40, Tutea Hoxa, 28, Julija Brigadirova, 32, Huba Muraisi, 30, Qesser Zuhrah, 19, Zahra Farooque, 24, and Kamran Ahmed, 27, are each accused of aggravated burglary and transgression damage.

Hoxa, from Beckenham, south-east London, and Brigadirova, of Manchester, lone look those 2 counts.

While Middlebrough, of Liverpool, Herbich, of Kensal Rise, north-west London, Zuhrah, of Woolwich, south-east London, Muraisi, of Bloomsbury, cardinal London, Farooque, of Fulham, south-west London, and Ahmed, of East Ham, eastbound London, person besides been charged with convulsive disorder.

The radical appeared astatine Westminster Magistrates’ Court connected Saturday wherever they were ordered to look astatine the Old Bailey connected December 6.

District Judge Snow refused the defendants bail and remanded them successful custody.

At slightest 30 friends and household appeared successful the nationalist gallery, waiving astatine the defendants and pumping their fists successful the aerial arsenic they appeared.

After the judge’s determination to garbage them bail, a fig of supporters burst into tears. Outside, a tiny radical was staging a protestation and waving Palestinian flags adjacent the entranceway to the court.

A erstwhile tribunal proceeding was told a conveyance was driven into the building’s doors during the protest, and 2 responding constabulary officers and a information defender were injured.

Ten others person appeared successful tribunal and are owed to basal proceedings adjacent twelvemonth charged implicit the aforesaid incident.

Samuel Corner, 22, of Devon, is charged with transgression damage, convulsive disorder, and aggravated burglary utilizing a sledgehammer arsenic an violative weapon.

He is besides charged with wounding constabulary sergeant Kate Evans “with intent to defy oregon forestall the lawful apprehension oregon detention of another”.

It is besides alleged helium caused existent bodily harm to Angelo Volante and Pc Aaron Buxton.

Jordan Devlin, 30, of Stoke Newington, north-east London, Charlotte Head, 28, of Caerleon, Newport, South Wales, Leona Kamio, 28, of Hackney, eastbound London, Fatema Rajwani, 20, of East Mitcham, Merton, south-west London, and Zoe Rogers, 20, of Enfield, northbound London, are each charged with transgression damage, convulsive upset and aggravated burglary utilizing a sledgehammer.

Hannah Davidson, 51, of Calder Gardens, Edinburgh, Ian Sanders, 45, of Regent Place, Leamington Spa, William Plastow, 33, of High Croft Avenue, Manchester, and Madeline Norman, 29, of Wester Drylaw Drive, Edinburgh, are besides jointly charged with transgression harm and aggravated burglary utilizing a sledgehammer successful narration to the incident.

Norman is besides charged with convulsive disorder.