Overview
- A jury at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday convicted Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Fatema Rajwani of criminal damage, with sentencing set for June 12.
- Corner was also found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm for twice striking Sgt Kate Evans with a sledgehammer, which fractured her spine.
- Two co-defendants, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin, were acquitted of criminal damage.
- Prosecutors said the August 6, 2024 raid used a van as a battering ram before activists smashed computers, drones and other equipment with sledgehammers and crowbars, causing about £1 million in damage.
- The verdicts followed a retrial after an earlier jury deadlocked, in a case set against the government’s terrorism ban on Palestine Action that the High Court ruled unlawful but left in force during an appeal.