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‘Stansted 15’ have convictions overturned Top Story January 30, 2021 LONDON: Protesters taken to court after preventing a deportation flight from taking off from Stansted Airport have had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal. 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 Home Office to transport people from UK detention centres for repatriation to Africa. They were convicted at Chelmsford Crown Court in December 2018 of the intentional disruption of se...

A GROUP of protestors taken to court after preventing a deportation flight from taking off at Stansted have had their convictions overturned on appeal. The so-called Stansted 15 cut through the airport’s perimeter fence and locked themselves together around a Boeing 767 jet chartered by the Home Office to transport people from UK detention centres for repatriation to Africa. They were later convicted at Chelmsford Crown Court of an offence arising out of the March 2017 incident. Three were given suspended jail sentences and the other 12 were handed community orders. The group were...

A GROUP of protestors taken to court after preventing a deportation flight from taking off at Stansted have had their convictions overturned on appeal. The so-called Stansted 15 cut through the airport’s perimeter fence and locked themselves together around a Boeing 767 jet chartered by the Home Office to transport people from UK detention centres for repatriation to Africa. They were later convicted at Chelmsford Crown Court of an offence arising out of the March 2017 incident. Three were given suspended jail sentences and the other 12 were handed community orders. The group were...

By Press Association 2021 Six members of the 'Stansted 15' outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London Protesters taken to court after preventing a deportation flight from taking off from Stansted Airport have had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal. 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 Home Office to transport people from UK detention centres for repatriation to Africa. They were convicted ...

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...