Stansted 15 have convictions quashed as judge rules 'there was no case to answer' Group locked themselves around Boeing 767 chartered by Home Office to transport people from UK detention centres for repatriation to Africa 29 January 2021 • 7:27pm Stansted 15 have convictions quashed as judge rules 'there was no case to answer' Credit: In Pictures/Kristian Buus A group of protesters who stopped a Home Office deportation flight taking off from Stansted airport have had their terror-related convictions overturned after judges ruled they should never have been charged with such serious offences in the first place. The so-called "Stansted 15" cut through the Essex airport's perimeter fence in March 2017 and locked themselves together around a Boeing 767 jet chartered by the Government to transport people from UK detention centres for repatriation to Africa.