Four UK pro-Palestinian activists guilty of criminal damage over raid at Israeli firm Elbit

LONDON, May 5 – Four British pro-Palestinian activists were on Tuesday convicted of criminal damage relating to a 2024 raid on a factory operated by Israeli defence firm Elbit, while two of the defendants were acquitted.

Prosecutors at London’s Woolwich Crown Court said the six defendants were members of the now-banned group Palestine Action, which organised the assault on the Elbit Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, in August 2024.

The six – Charlotte Head, 30, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31 – had all denied charges of criminal damage.

Head, Corner, Kamio and Rajwani were found guilty, while Rogers and Devlin were found not guilty.

Corner, who was accused of hitting a police officer with a sledgehammer, was convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm, but found not guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. REUTERS