Overview
- Prosecutors opened their case at the Old Bailey on June 22, 2026, saying eight people face joint charges of criminal damage and violent disorder over an attack on Elbit’s Filton factory on August 6, 2024.
- The Crown presented encrypted CryptPad documents, a planning file found on a defendant’s phone, alleged reconnaissance photographs and travel records as evidence of detailed planning and site surveying.
- Financial traces form a central strand of the case, with prosecutors citing bank transfers including a £600 payment, and receipts for tools and safety kit bought in Manchester that they say were used in the raid.
- None of the eight are accused of being physically at the factory that night; prosecutors say they planned, organised and supplied others to carry out the attack with the stated aim to “shut Elbit down.”
- The trial sits against wider legal debate after a June 11 sentencing described a prior Elbit raid as having a “terrorist connection,” raising questions about how protest-linked property damage is treated in court and what a verdict here could signal.