Press Releases & Updates 2000
19th September 2000
Trident disarmers Not Guilty on One Charge
Jury Still to Decide on Other Charge
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The Jury at the Manchester Crown trial of peace activists Rosie James and
Rachel Wenham has returned a Not Guilty verdict on one of the charges
against the women and is still to reach agreement on the other.
The women have been found Not Guilty on the charge of criminal damage
relating to the spray painting of peace slogans on the Trident submarine
HMS vengeance in Barrow last year. The jury has still not been able to
reach a verdict on the first charge relating to the damage to testing
equipment on the conning tower and has been sent home for the night by
Justice Humphries. The court will reconvene tomorrow at 10.30 when the jury
will be sent out to deliberate further.
In the light of the fact that the women have never denied that they carried
out the spray paining it would follow that the jury has decided that the
women’s defence was valid.
A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said:
"We have every hope that the verdict on the other charge will also
vindicate the women’s action."
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