Press Releases & Updates 2003

At Helensburgh District Court today Sue (26), from Faslane Peace Camp, told Justice of the Peace Nicholson that she had no intention of paying the fines or of abiding by the terms of a Supervised Attendance Order, should he impose it. She was sentenced to two seven-day terms, to run consecutively. She is likely to be released next Monday from Cornton Vale prison.*

This is Sue’s third spell in the prison. Other Trident Ploughshares activists currently in British jails are Ulla Roder, also in Cornton Vale, waiting for trial for disarming a warplane at Leuchars airbase in March and Sylvia Boyes who is in Low Newton prison in Durham for breaching the terms of a conditional discharge.

In the same court today Roz Bullen (31), from Edinburgh, was fined £200 for taking part in a "die-in" at Faslane naval base on Hiroshima Day last August. Roz said: "This is a very heavy fine when you consider how peaceful, solemn and moving an occasion it was."

On Saturday 2nd August campaigners from far and wide will gather for a fourteen-day disarmament camp focused on the Trident warhead depot (RNAD Coulport), and the Faslane naval base (HMNB Clyde), home to Britain’s Trident nuclear weapon submarines. They aim to cause as much disruption as possible to the Trident system and to draw attention to the hypocrisy underlying British failure to dismantle its WMD.

* HMP Cornton Vale, Cornton Road, Stirling FK9 5NU

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