Press Releases & Updates 2000

Zoe Weir, (28), from Faslane Peace Camp, had been given seven more days to pay when she appeared at Helensburgh District Court on the 25th of October, although she had firmly indicated then that she had no intention of paying. Yesterday she went voluntarily to the local police station and again said she had not paid and would not pay. The police then acted on a warrant issued by the court and took her to Cornton Vale Prison in Stirling to serve seven days. Her sentence will bring to 750 the total number of days spent in prison by Trident Ploughshares activists.

A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said: "Zoe’s sentence is a good illustration of how our criminal justice system has got the whole business upside down. The British government can lie its way out of any responsibility for its leaking and dangerous nuclear submarines and so far has been able to breach international law with complete impunity on the matter of Trident. Yet there is no problem about sending Zoe to jail for challenging this immoral and illegal system."

Notes:

This Friday Trident Ploughshares activists gather at Aldermaston for disarmament action against the Atomic Weapons Establishment there which makes plutonium "pits" (bomb cores) for Trident warheads.

This Thursday Susan van der Hijden and Martin Newell will appear from custody at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court. Early in the morning of Thursday last (3rd November) they got into the vehicle hangar at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire and disarmed a truck which is used for transporting Trident Warheads from Burghfield to Coulport in Scotland, causing an estimated £25000 worth of damage.

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