Press Releases & Updates 2003

Angie (51), from Cromer in Norfolk and Clive Fudge, from Norwich, entered the base and made their way towards the restricted area where nuclear capable US F-15 Strike-Eagle aircraft are parked.

Their friendly wave towards a guard post was reciprocated but when they made to go in to this area, US guards rushed up, brandishing guns and calling out incomprehensible commands. Angie and Clive then sat down on the ground. It was some time before civilian police could be found to take them into custody.

They both appeared in Sudbury Magistrates Court this morning. Clive is charged with aggravated trespass and criminal damage (allegedly for cutting a perimeter fence) and was released on bail. Angie is charged with aggravated trespass. Offered bail if she would undertake not to cut the perimeter fence or enter the base, she argued with the bench and has been remanded to High Point Prison*. Angie told the magistrates that she was outraged that we were attacking Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction while we had a huge arsenal of our own. The same hypocrisy applied to Palestine where the Israelis, themselves unchallenged possessors on WMD, were engaged in appalling breaches of human rights, as she had recently witnessed with her own eyes in her work there with the International Women’s Peace Service.

Clive is to appear in Bury St. Edmonds Magistrates Court next Tuesday (25th March) and Angie will be brought back to Sudbury Magistrates on Wednesday (26th March).

*Angie Zelter HR4725 HMP High Point Stradishall Newmarket Suffolk CB8 9YG

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