Vicar pleads 'not guilty' to blocking road and says her Christian faith made her do it "As His follower, I must also be prepared, in some small way, to lay down my life to save the lives of others" Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now A 78-year-old vicar has pleaded ‘not guilty’ to a charge of obstruction after she was arrested trying to stop people going to work at the Ministry of Defence headquarters at Abbey Wood, in Bristol. Rev Sue Parfitt said her Christian faith drove her to sit in the road and lock arms with a fellow campaigner on December 11 last year, in a protest about the Ministry of Defence’s contribution to the climate change, carbon emissions and the ‘catastrophic climate emergency we face’.