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(From left to right) David Lambert, 60, a historian from Gloucestershire, Phoebe Valentine, 23, a maths student from Brighton, Claudia Fisher, 57, a business woman from Brighton, Senan Clifford, 59, a former teacher from Gloucestershire and John Burrage, 42, who also uses the name of Ben Bont, a tree surgeon from West Wales, arrive at the City of London Magistrates' Court
FIVE Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists had their trial thrown out today after the prosecution failed to give its key witness enough notice to attend.
Deputy District Judge Vincent McDade dismissed the case, the first relating to XR’s City Airport action in October last year, at City of London magistrates’ court due to “abject failings” by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
He said that the CPS had failed to give its key witness, the police officer who had arrested the activists, enough notice ahead of the trial, which meant that the officer had already booked a holiday.
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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
