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Press Releases & Updates 2000
3rd December 2000
Trident Ploughshares Conspiracy Trial
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The legality of the British nuclear weapons system will be
challenged in the courts once again when the trial of Sylvia
Boyes and River begins in Manchester Crown Court on 8th
January 2001.
In November 1999 the two members of the
Midlands affinity group attempted to decommission the
Trident submarine Vengeance as part of the Trident
Ploughshares disarmament campaign, when it was undergoing
testing in Barrow docks, prior to its commissioning into the
Royal Navy.
Armed with various hand tools and spray paint, and carrying
documents relating to the illegality of Trident and the
damage already done by nuclear weapons, they had entered the
water of the docks, but were intercepted by a patrol boat
before they could swim to the submarine. They are charged
with conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
By using a combination of one being represented by lawyers
and the other presenting their own defence, and by using
expert witnesses, the two hope to bring the widest possible
range of evidence to expose the criminality of Trident.
Sylvia and River see the action, and the trial as part of
their Quaker witness to peace. Sylvia says, "This country
is guilty of threatened mass murder and destruction, with
its deployment of trident nuclear weapons. I will not run
away from this crime."
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