At Helensburgh District Court on Tues 22 Sep Anja and Jens Light and Angie Zelter were found guilty and admonished on charges of malicious mischief and the breach of bye-laws connected with their disarmament actions during the Trident Ploughshares 2000 action at Coulport in August. The photo shows Angie at the time of her arrest.
Justice Of The Peace Stirling said that he was finding them guilty " with regret " He congratulated them on the quality of their defence and the manner in which they had conducted themselves and said that he would in due course issue a written judgement.
While accepting that the JP had come a fair distance in reaching the verdict that he did Angie Zelter has indicated that she will appeal. "Beyond any doubt we proved to the Court that our actions, far from being reckless, were planned and executed after long thought and consideration as the only way of preventing the nuclear crime that is being committed by the UK. We have learned nothing from the Nuremberg principles, and nothing from war crimes in Ruanda and former Yugoslavia if Scottish courts can still not grasp the fact that international humanitarian law applies locally and universally."
Earlier in the day JP Stirling had found Cambridge University student Gaynor Barrett guilty of Breach of the Peace and fined her £150. Gaynor's crime had been to pick up litter from the roadway outside the South Gate of the Faslane nuclear weapons base.