Press Releases & Updates 2002

After her arrest on 13th February Ulla, 46, from Odense in Denmark, was brought to court and offered bail on the very special condition that she stay outside the Argyll and Bute Council area. Ulla refused to accept or reject this condition, claiming that it was a breach of her human rights, and so was held on remand until this week’s trial.

The defence case was that although Ulla had sat in the roadway at the main entrance to the nuclear weapons base, she had not intended to obstruct the traffic but had been engaged in a peaceful protest. There was in fact no evidence that any traffic was obstructed and any traffic seeking entry would not have been impeded by her action. Representing Ulla, solicitor Raymond McIlwham argued that only Ulla could give evidence of what her intentions were in sitting in the road. That evidence she had given under oath and a witness of her obvious integrity and conviction should be believed.

Justice of the Peace Nicholson found Ulla guilty but was content to admonish her, taking into account the time she had already served in prison.

Another Trident Ploughshares activist was admonished today. Marjan Willemsen, 24, from faslane Peace Camp was found guilty in Dumbarton Sheriff Court on a number of anti-Trident charges, including cutting the perimeter fence at Faslane. Sheriff Thomas Scott enquired whether she had paid any of the fines that she had incurred. When she told him she hadn’t he admonished her.

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