HOLDING THE FORTNUM

The first thirteen defendants in the Fortnum & Mason trials will enter their pleas on 5th July at Westminster Magistrates Court. They stand accused of aggravated trespass after the UK UNCUT action on M26 (see SchNEWS 765).

The first group consists of those flagged up by the Crown Prosecution Service as being in the following four categories.

1) Organisers or ringleaders

2) Those with previous convictions

3) Those caught with large amounts of leaflets

4) Most weirdly those who were considered to be ‘exercising territorial powers’ in the store.

The bloke on the end of the phone at UK Uncut reckoned they would ‘probably all go not guilty’. Altogether 145 people are facing charges

* See www.ukuncut.org.uk