Protest policing plans are an “assault” on human rights – campaigners
Civil liberties campaigners have condemned police plans for dealing with demonstrations as an “assault” on human rights.
Police investigate assault claim against shale gas security guard
Lancashire Police confirmed today it was investigating a complaint that a security guard assaulted an anti-fracking protester outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool.
Prosecutors drop final Balcombe anti-fracking trial
9th May 2014 The last trial arising from the anti-fracking protests outside Cuadrilla’s oil exploration site at Balcombe has been dropped by prosecutors.
Anti-fracking demonstrator found guilty of assault – but cleared on resisting arrest
An environmental campaigner at the anti-fracking protests at Balcombe was found guilty this afternoon (29/1/14) of assaulting a police officer but was acquitted of resisting arrest. Tony Jones, 24, of Hackney, London, was accused of pushing Sergeant Michael Howe in the chest on August 19th last year during […]
Two anti-fracking campaigners found guilty of assaulting the police at Balcombe protests – one found not guilty
Two environmental campaigners, Timothy Harris and Kaity Squires, have been found guilty of assaulting police at last summer’s anti-fracking protests at Balcombe. They were both conditionally discharged for 12 months and each ordered to pay £300 costs. Another campaigner, Zachary Hewitt, was found not guilty on the same […]
Balcombe anti-fracking campaigner accused of assaulting police evidence gatherer with placard
A member of a police evidence gathering team at the anti-fracking protests at Balcombe told Brighton Magistrates Court today (22/1/14) how he was hit on the lip by a placard carried by an environmental campaigner. PC Stephen Kimber, of Eastbourne Police Station, was working at the front of […]
