As PN went to press, the trial was continuing at Chelmsford crown court of the Stansted 15, activists who face years in prison for using lock-ons to ground a charter flight for 10 hours. The 15 prevented the deportation of 60 undocumented immigrants to West Africa on 28 March 2017.
The defence argue that their action was to prevent the human rights abuses that deportation charter flights involve.
The first defendant to give evidence, Benjamin Smoke, described his…