Press Releases & Updates 2000

Sylvia Boyes a Quaker peace campaigner from Manchester in the English North West added an anti-Trident message to a notice, whilst five other activists supported her.

Yesterday at 11 p.m. Sylvia Boyes added the words "Stamp Out Trident" to a notice reading "Mind How You Step" at Coulport. This base houses the British Trident nuclear weapon arsenal. She was joined on this action by Mark Akkerman, 20, Elle Folkers, 19, both students from the Netherlands, Marcus Armstrong, 40, from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Barbara Maver from Edinburgh and Angie Zelter, 49, from Cromer, Norfolk. Sylvia Boyes was charged with Malicious Mischief, Barbara Maver with Obstruction and the others with Breach of the Peace. Strathclyde Police held them overnight. They will attend custody hearings this morning at Helensburgh district court and Dumbarton Sheriff Court.

Trident Ploughshares have worked intensively over the past seven days on disarmament actions. Marcus Armstrong has been arrested six times since the camp started on August 1, Elle Folkers and Barbara Maver four times, Angie Zelter and Mark Akkerman three times and Sylvia Boyes twice. Angie Zelter is one of the three women who were acquitted by Sheriff Margaret Gimblett at Greenock Court last November after disarming the submarine testing station codenamed Maytime, in Loch Goil.

"It is ironic that the management at Coulport seem so concerned with the safety of their workers while they disregard the potential victims of Trident." Said Jane Tallents of Trident Ploughsharess. The open and accountable acts of people’s disarmament continue. Words without action are meaningless. The total number arrested since this camp started is 126.

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