DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Six British activists acquitted of aggravated burglary relating to a 2024 raid on an Israeli defence firm Elbit.Six British pro-Palestinian activists have been acquitted of aggravated burglary relating to a 2024 raid on a factory operated by Israeli defence firm Elbit, with a jury unable to reach verdicts on charges of criminal damage.Prosecutors at London’s Woolwich Crown Court said on Wednesday the six defendants, whose trial began in November, were members of the now-banned group Palestine Action, which organised the assault on the Elbit Systems United Kingdom facility in Bristol, southwest England, in August last year.The six – Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31 – all denied charges of aggravated burglary, violent disorder and criminal damage.Rajwani, Rogers and Devlin were found not guilty of violent disorder by a jury at the Woolwich Crown Court, while it could not reach verdicts on the same charge against Head, Corner and Kamio after more than 36-and-a-half hours of deliberation.The six defendants hugged in the dock and waved to supporters in the public gallery, who cheered loudly after the judge had left the court.A press statement from a group of activists supporting the six under trials noted that the jury, which deliberated over the case for eight days, did not convict a single defendant of any offence, including violent disorder and crimin …
