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You are here: Frontpage > News > Shannon and Mary Kelly: forgive us our trespassers
10-Jul-2003Shannon and Mary Kelly: forgive us our trespassers |
by: INNATE/Nonviolent News Ireland: On 3 July, Mary Kelly, who took direct action against a US warplane at Shannon airport some days before the Catholic Worker five, has been found guilty of the minor charge of trespass but remanded on continuing bail following disagreement among the jury about the more major charge of criminal damage (the DPP/Director of Public Prosecutions now has to decide whether there should be a further trial). The jury were unable to agree a majority 10 – 2 verdict despite a very biased summing up by the judge at Kilrush Circuit Court. The allegation was that $1.5 million worth of criminal damage was done with an axe. Her sentencing on the trespass charge will come in October. Read more on this story at http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60268&PHPSESSID=613ece6b4b5bc91e9b9f314e48080e9b See Peace News story on Mary's action at http://www.peacenews.info/news/article/126 Read Nonviolent News at http://www.innatenonviolence.org/2003news/news110.htm |