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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 ...

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...

News Reporter FIFTEEN activists who were prosecuted under terrorism-related laws for blocking a deportation flight celebrated the end of a four-year “nightmare” today after their convictions were quashed.   Judges ruled that the activists — known as the Stansted 15 — should never have been charged under counter-terrorism legislation and had “no case to answer.”  The Court of Appeal ruling, handed down this afternoon, came two years after the group were convicted of “endangering the safety of an aerodrome” — an offence under the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990 t...

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 ...