{"id":716254,"date":"2026-07-28T23:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716254\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T23:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:35:15","slug":"martha-goddard-found-guilty-of-criminal-damage-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716254\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Goddard found guilty of criminal damage attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25675244.martha-goddard-charged-attempted-explosions-norwich\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martha Goddard, 51, carried out the attacks<\/a> at two Starbucks cafes,\u00a0McDonald&#8217;s in Haymarket, Norwich, and at the BBC studios located in the Forum.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Goddard on CCTV (Image: Eastern Region Special Operations Unit)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The incidents all took place in Norwich between March and July 2025 and CCTV footage captured the moments\u00a0improvised incendiary devices were set alight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to the BBC, it is believed that\u00a0she set the devices alight using sparklers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Following a 12-day trial at Woolwich Crown Court in London, Goddard was found guilty of six counts of criminal damage and one count of making an explosive substance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Martha Goddard pictured in 2007 at a protest in Postwick about the Northern Distributor Road (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She was not found guilty of attempting to cause explosions or of offences connected to an attack on the Tacolneston transmitting station in south Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During the five-month series of attacks, between\u00a0March and July 2025, Goddard set off homemade devices filled with a pyrotechnic chemical compound called thermite, which caused damage to buildings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>CCTV footage of one of the the explosive attacks (Image: Eastern Region Special Operations Unit)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The attacks caused thousands of pounds worth of damage, the court heard.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Goddard was arrested in October, at which point the attacks using thermite stopped in the Norwich area.<\/p>\n<p>Police found Goddard had ordered several kilograms of substances to her home used to make thermite, a pyrotechnic that creates intense, extremely hot chemical reactions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The forensics tent at night (Image: Submitted)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She also left homemade posters at the scenes with slogans such as &#8220;Stop Bombing Gaza&#8221; and calling the BBC &#8220;cowards&#8221; over its coverage of the conflict.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The posters became key in identifying her as a suspect after her fingerprints were found on them.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage of the incidents also captured her wearing clothing, including a camouflage jacket and a black hat, which were found at her home in Sarah Williman Close, Norwich.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Goddard is due to be sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on 16 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martha Goddard, 51, carried out the attacks at two Starbucks cafes,\u00a0McDonald&#8217;s in Haymarket, Norwich, and at the BBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}