Press Releases & Updates 2002

The Crown alleged that Ulla (46), who is from Odense in Denmark and is remanded to Cornton Vale prison until 11th September, cut the perimeter fence at Faslane naval base in December 2000, but when it became obvious from the testimony of the first police witness that there was no evidence the case against her was abandoned. She was found guilty of failing to appear at an earlier date for trial on this charge and admonished by Justice of the Peace Nicolson since she is already in prison.

Molly Harvey (62), a project co-ordinator with the Braendam Link, a charity which supports families suffering from poverty and social exclusion, faced breach of the peace charges for taking part in blockades of Faslane in October last year and February this year. Molly pointed out that nuclear weapons could destroy the northern hemisphere in about ten minutes. "It’s a crazy old world we live in," she said "when our time has to be wasted in such lengthy processes as this in order to make what seems to be a fairly obvious point. If the law has indeed to be broken to make the point, then so be it." She was fined £100 on each charge. Molly has already served time in Cornton Vale for refusing to pay a fine for a Faslane protest.

Laura (Rae) McKinley (44), a mother of three from Glasgow was alleged to have breached the peace at the blockade last October. She told the court that it was not criminal to break the law for peace; her conscience could not accept Trident. When asked by Procurator Fiscal McRae whether she had sat in the road she said she had, because she believed that everyone, including him, was entitled to be protected from Trident.

A supporter in court said: "Today these women reminded us very powerfully that the common sense, the care for humanity and the planet, the moral and legal logic is all on the side of getting rid of Trident. I just wish more people could have heard it all - maybe then the road to disarmament would be a short one."

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