Three Palestine Action protestors end their hunger strike

Anniebach

A fractured spine is criminal damage? is attempted murder / manslaughter criminal damage?

I agree, but it isn’t terrorism.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce950111xk7o

Well 4 of the 6 will serve prison sentences. Samuel Corner has got off especially lightly in my opinion, less punishment for taking a sledgehammer to a policewoman's back fracturing her spine than for the criminal damage. But at least he will serve consecutive sentences and not concurrent.
Not one word of sorrow for the lifelong pain inflicted on a policewoman just doing her duty.

And the best bit Rosie51 is that none of them will qualify for early release from prison provisions and the Parole Board will assess their risk to the public when it determines when they can be set free. Excellent news.

It was a set up supposed to be tried for criminal damage not terrorism the jury weren't told and were not told they were trying to prevent a genocide.

What is this country coming to this government when protesters including elderly people and a vicar are arrested for holding up a placard saying I support Palestine no to a genocide.

A fractured spine is criminal damage? is attempted murder / manslaughter criminal damage?

I agree, but it isn’t terrorism.

So that's all right then.

A 'cause' is often a good cover for violent men.

Oh well, they can always go on another 'hunger strike'. Meanwhile, I'll save my sympathy for the injured police officer.

Who is being sympathetic?
Looking for accuracy is not being sympathetic.
It is simply looking for accuracy.

Samwam

It was a set up supposed to be tried for criminal damage not terrorism the jury weren't told and were not told they were trying to prevent a genocide.

What is this country coming to this government when protesters including elderly people and a vicar are arrested for holding up a placard saying I support Palestine no to a genocide.

Samwam any thoughts on a man smashing a sledgehammer into the back of a policewoman doing her duty and causing a fractured spine that will give her lifelong pain? Your sort of hero? Do you honestly think the jury didn't know who they were trying and the claims made by the group?

People have no idea of the risks these men ( in particular the men) pose. They are especially dangerous as they are convinced they are right.

Maremia

Who is being sympathetic?
Looking for accuracy is not being sympathetic.
It is simply looking for accuracy.

Did I say anyone on here had expressed sympathy? No. I merely said where mine lay. These 'protesters' are now finding out that actions have consequences. FAFO...

So pleased that those horrible violent people got jail time, which they richly deserved.
The guy who hit the policewoman with a sledgehammer has got six years to contemplate his behaviour.
None of them can apply for parole much earlier than their full sentences.

These young people were trying to prevent a genocide and probably saved lives. There was no intent to use violence

2000 British men comiting actual war crimes, genocide coming back home not, questioned or arrested?.

So trying to stop a genocide you are a terrorist. Comiting genocide you are not a terrorist.

The government wants these young people classed as terrorists as its complicit in genocide.

Lots of people don't agree with the judge verdict. A jury would on the evidence convicted them of criminal damage the judge interviened.

I don't condone any violence. If you read the daily mail or watch bbc you wouldn't know the lady had a small fracture that was not life threatening or life changing.

Lots of people are protesting this verdict, along with many celebrities.

Is the government trying to take away trial by jury.

And again many people excuse violent men. They love a cause, it provides a shield.

I don't condone any violence. If you read the daily mail or watch bbc you wouldn't know the lady had a small fracture that was not life threatening or life changing.
And yet here you are doing just that. Did you read her personal statement read out to the court? Are you her doctor, do you have full access to her medical records? I don't think anyone has claimed her injury was life-threatening but that's more luck than judgement. Perhaps you'd like to take your chances and be hit on your back with a sledgehammer to demonstrate the 'smallness' of the injury. No I thought not.

Lots of people are protesting this verdict, along with many celebrities.
Oh of course 'celebrities' whose opinions although often fatuous are so worthy of greater respect we have to separate them from 'people' 😂

Oreo

So pleased that those horrible violent people got jail time, which they richly deserved.
The guy who hit the policewoman with a sledgehammer has got six years to contemplate his behaviour.
None of them can apply for parole much earlier than their full sentences.

Six years is not long for inflicting a lifetime of back pain in my opinion.

Still better than nothing.

Six years is not long for inflicting a lifetime of back pain in my opinion.

And when it was pointed out in court that he's never so much as said 'sorry' to her, his defence counsel said he would like to now.......such heartfelt regret, I don't think so.

Samwam

These young people were trying to prevent a genocide and probably saved lives. There was no intent to use violence

2000 British men comiting actual war crimes, genocide coming back home not, questioned or arrested?.

So trying to stop a genocide you are a terrorist. Comiting genocide you are not a terrorist.

The government wants these young people classed as terrorists as its complicit in genocide.

Lots of people don't agree with the judge verdict. A jury would on the evidence convicted them of criminal damage the judge interviened.

I don't condone any violence. If you read the daily mail or watch bbc you wouldn't know the lady had a small fracture that was not life threatening or life changing.

Lots of people are protesting this verdict, along with many celebrities.

Is the government trying to take away trial by jury.

They haven’t prevented anything that happened in Gaza and haven’t saved any lives.
All they have done is caused pain, fear and suffering to workers and police, and caused damage, especially to two planes that had nothing to do with Gaza and costs money to us tax payers.
They aren’t heroes they are zeros.

I think accuracy is important.
People found guilty of 'assault' and sentenced for that will serve without appeal.
People who are found guilty of 'terrorism', but who have vocal, influential support against that specific charge, may have grounds to appeal.
That's why accuracy matters.
That's where 'celebrities' come into it.

I don't know if I'm understanding your post correctly Maremia. Are you saying that if you have 'celebrity' backing that carries more weight and should influence justice. What if there were other 'celebrities' who thought the sentences were correct? Who gets to be top trumps celebrity. who decides?

Lets not forget a police officer was attacked with a sledgehammer, fracturing her back, during an organised break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm and caused £1.2m worth of damage.
No one starved.
Prisoners linked to the protest group Palestine Action used a rolling hunger strike. The collective protest began in early November 2025 across multiple British prisons and involved eight detainees who were being held on remand while awaiting trial.The activists utilised a rolling strike to rotate who was refusing food or to fast on alternating days.

Samwam

These young people were trying to prevent a genocide and probably saved lives. There was no intent to use violence

2000 British men comiting actual war crimes, genocide coming back home not, questioned or arrested?.

So trying to stop a genocide you are a terrorist. Comiting genocide you are not a terrorist.

The government wants these young people classed as terrorists as its complicit in genocide.

Lots of people don't agree with the judge verdict. A jury would on the evidence convicted them of criminal damage the judge interviened.

I don't condone any violence. If you read the daily mail or watch bbc you wouldn't know the lady had a small fracture that was not life threatening or life changing.

Lots of people are protesting this verdict, along with many celebrities.

Is the government trying to take away trial by jury.

A judge does not deliver a verdict - that is the role of the jury. The judge hands down the sentence.

From two investigative journalists Johnathan Cook and Craig Murray who write about been to know about the middles east Palestine and Israel

As former British ambassador Craig Murray notes, a raft of recent legislation has given the police and courts enormous, authoritarian powers, including the right to treat any form of civil disobedience as terrorism because it seeks to "influence the government".

The timing of Judge Johnson's sentencing of the Filton Four as terrorists on Friday, after a jury had found them guilty only of a relatively minor charge of criminal damage – as well as the renewed cacophony of fake news about a policewoman having her spine broken / smashed, rebutted by Murray in his latest article – is not accidental.

As Murray points out, the purpose is to smooth the path for the Court of Appeal to reverse the High Court's recent ruling that it was "unlawful" of the government to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The Appeal Court will issue its decision tomorrow (Monday).

The government is desperate to ensure the crushing of Palestine Action continues and thereby prevent the group from drawing attention to the UK's continuing complicity in Israel's atrocities, such as our hosting of Israeli factories that make killer drones for use in Gaza.

More from Murray here: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/06/sentencing-the-innocent/