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A YOUNG driver who left a trade unionist lying in a road bleeding, unconscious and with both legs shattered told a Manchester Court yesterday that the activists had had “no right” to stand in his way.
Michael Collins, 20, is appearing at Manchester Crown Court charged with dangerous driving. He has pleaded not guilty.
The case centres on an incident on Wednesday May 15 last year when Unite members were staging an anti-blacklisting protest against construction firm Bam outside Manchester City football club’s training ground and stadium.
Sexual harassment on Britain’s railways is rising sharply, according to the British Transport Police, yet too many women still feel reporting is futile. LYNNE WALSH asks why the burden of safety all too often remains on women themselves
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD