The remarks and a press summary may be read at R -v- Charlotte Head and others - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. There is also a judgment addressing the question of whether the defendants’ offence of criminal damage had a “terrorist connection.” The judge held that the criminal damage did have such a connection.
As explained in a previous post, the finding that there was a terrorist connection entitled the judge to increase the sentences - Previous post on section 69 of the Sentencing Act 2020.
The defendants were Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani. Each of them was convicted by a jury of an offence of criminal damage. Samuel Corner, was also convicted of an offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm - (serious spinal injury to a Police Officer).
The sentences were -
The criminal damage was planned and was extensive. There was a terrorist connection to those offences. The grievous bodily harm inflicted by Samuel Corner was a spinal fracture inflicted with a sledgehammer. Contrary to the view of some, including a number of politicians, the sentences were entirely merited.
The question of whether the State of Israel committed genocide in Gaza was NOT before the court. There is a case before the International Court of Justice which may, eventually, decide that question - Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v Israel
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