Press Releases & Updates 2000

Among those arrested was Ulla Roder (45), from Odense in Denmark, one of the Trident Three who were famously acquitted in Greenock Sheriff Court last October after causing £80,000 worth of damage to a Trident related research barge in Loch Goil, Scotland. She has been charged with criminal damage along with Roger Franklin (72) from Stroud, and Joan Meredith (70), a former teacher of the deaf from Alnwick in Northumberland. Zoe Weir (24), from the Peace Camp at Faslane in Scotland, was charged under Section 69 of the Criminal Justice Act for failing to respond to a warning re trespass. Six others were warned under Section 69.

The group of ten activists entered the Aldermaston site with various aims. Some intended to get hold of useful information from the administration building, some wanted to paint radiation signs on the blue vehicles which are used for special materials transportation and others intended to cause general disruption.

Roger Franklin and Joan Meredith have been released on police bail, on condition they do not come within five miles of Aldermaston. Ulla Roder is currently considering these conditions while Zoe Weir has refused bail and will remain in custody.

Over 50 activists are now at the camp and numbers will build today as preparations are made for tomorrow’s blockade of the base, which will start at 6 a.m. One of the campers, Marlene Yeo, from Burton on the Wolds, is to appear tomorrow at 2 p.m in Loughborough Magistrates Court. She is refusing to pay compensation of £291 to AWE Aldermaston after damaging the site’s perimeter fence last summer.

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