{"id":273694,"date":"2026-02-04T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/273694\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:46:13","slug":"uk-acquits-pro-palestinian-activists-of-aggravated-burglary-at-israel-linked-defence-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/273694\/","title":{"rendered":"UK acquits pro-Palestinian activists of aggravated burglary at Israel-linked defence firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Six British pro-Palestinian activists were acquitted of aggravated burglary relating to a 2024 raid on a factory operated by Israel-linked defence firm Elbit, with a jury unable to reach verdicts on charges of criminal damage.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Prosecutors said the six defendants, whose trial began in November, were members of the now-banned group Palestine Action, which organised the march into the Elbit Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, in August last year.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The six, Charlotte Head, 29; Samuel Corner, 23; Leona Kamio, 30; Fatema Zainab Rajwani, 21; Zoe Rogers, 22; and Jordan Devlin, 31, all denied charges of aggravated burglary, violent disorder and criminal damage. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Defence lawyers argued the activists acted in self-defence after security personnel overreacted. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">None of the security officers involved is under criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Rajwani, Rogers and Devlin were found not guilty of violent disorder by a jury at London&#8217;s Woolwich Crown Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six British pro-Palestinian activists were acquitted of aggravated burglary relating to a 2024 raid on a factory operated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-273694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}