Press Releases & Updates 2003

Student activist, Joss Garman, and renowned activists Sylvia Boyes and Olivia Agate all pled not guilty to the charge on the grounds that they were acting to prevent a greater crime. The court withdrew the charge against Joss Garman, ’binding him over’ to ’keep the peace’ for twelve months. Boyes and Agate however, were both found guilty and ordered to pay £550 each.

In a passionate speech to the court, Boyes explained what was in her mind on the evening the three attempted to enter the base - describing what she saw in 1991 when she went to Iraq during the first Gulf War as part of a ’peace team.’

Delivering evidence, Agate explained that having been a nurse for many years, she spent her time trying to save lives and decrease suffering and she found it an obscenity that the US/UK were going to commit mass genocide.

Garman said, "Everything that we expected to happen in Iraq as a consequence of the war has occurred. Over 7000 innocent people have been murdered, the Middle East has been further destabilized, and yet there is no sign of Saddam or any weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqi people effectively are left to fend for themselves as the US busies itself securing the oil."

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