Press Releases & Updates 2001

Ulla (45), from Odense in Denmark, was apprehended at 8.30 a.m. while cutting her way through the security fence after wriggling underneath a gateway on the south side of the complex. At about midnight she had attempted to penetrate the base at the point where the fence meets the water, while fellow activist Ian Thomson distracted the security forces by cutting the fence near the main gate. Ian was also arrested. Both were released this afternoon.

Ulla was one of the three women who in June 1999 disarmed the Trident-related research barge Maytime in Loch Goil and were acquitted by Sheriff Margaret Gimblett in October of the same year. Today’s was Ulla’s 12th arrest. She said: "Words without actions are not good enough to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Our only real option is to protect ourselves from the danger of nuclear weapons and protect the environment the best we can, so that we can have a world in peace without the constant threat of nuclear annihilation."

Ulla and her fellow Trident Ploughshares pledgers have been greatly cheered by the acquittal yesterday in Manchester Crown Court of Sylvia Boyes and River, on charges of conspiracy to commit criminal damage. In November 1999 Sylvia and River had attempted to decommission the Trident submarine Vengeance in its dock in Barrow.

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