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Press Releases & Updates 2002
4th December 2002
New Year Artists Fined at Helensburgh
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Two Trident Ploughshares activists were today fined at Helensburgh District Court for unsolicited decoration of the perimeter fence at Faslane naval base late on New Year’s eve last year.
Sue Brackenbury (26), from Ayrshire, and Roz Bullen (31), from Edinburgh each received £100 fines from Justice of the Peace Fraser Gillies for painting on the fence at the south gate of the nuclear weapons base peace messages reading "We want a peaceful New Year" and "Trident threatens our future".
Roz said: "That base is a scar on the landscape and it is vital to remind workers and passers-by what its hideous purpose is. At New Year, with the war in Afghanistan going on, we felt there was an urgent need to highlight the importance of justice as against retaliation. We knew then that Iraq would be next and we were aware that the threat to use our nuclear weapons would be part of it."
Earlier the case against Jean Oliver (41), from Biggar in Lanarkshire and Maire-Colette Wilkie, (60), from Edinburgh, for a breach of the peace at the blockade of the base last October, collapsed when the Procurator Fiscal accepted their not guilty pleas following vague testimony from the first police witness.
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