Press Releases & Updates 2001

Morag (28), is from Glenrothes and polled 841 votes in the Central Fife constituency in the recent Westminster election. Early on 2nd August last year she blockaded the main gate of Coulport naval arms depot, during the Trident Ploughshares disarmament camp. Morag is a wheelchair user with an arthritic condition and she has been arrested many times for anti-Trident actions. Defending herself, she told the court that she identified with those disabled people who had been cynically used as human guinea pigs in the Maralinga nuclear weapon tests. She had not committed any crime - she had come to Coulport that day to bring peace, not to breach it.

Sheriff Tom Scott found her guilty but was content to admonish her since, as he said, the sincerity of her motivation was apparent.

A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said: "Unlike the Helensburgh magistrates who routinely dish out punitive fines for peaceful, conscientious actions, Sheriff Scott obviously accepts that these actions are not criminal. Perhaps next time (and there will be many) he will go the whole hog and find activists like Morag not guilty!"

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