Press Releases & Updates 2003

Phill Jones (40), Scottish CND’s campaigns worker, was arrested on the 14th August at the nuclear weapons base with four others after he cut a slice in the security fence using a petrol-driven saw. The action was part of the Trident Ploughshares disarmament camp this summer at the Clyde bases, during which 41 people were arrested.

Although she fined him, Justice of the Peace Viv Dance did not impose a compensation order since the prosecution had failed to come up with a proper estimate of the damage. She also instructed the Procurator Fiscal to return the confiscated saw to the company from which it had been hired.

Phill did not deny the facts of the case but told the court that his action was justified because of the horror and illegality of the Trident nuclear weapon system.

A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said: “Punishing people who take a peaceful and nonviolent stand against nuclear terror is the routine in this court, but it does not deter us. We cannot walk away as if we were not aware that behind that fence is a system devoted to mass murder.”

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