The Jury Aren’t Being Allowed to Know the Context of the Defendant’s Actions, Their Right to Acquit on the Grounds of Conscience Nor that They will be Sentenced, if found Guilty of Criminal Damage, as Terrorists

Zarah Sultana Speech in House of Commons – How Judges & the State are Trying to Rig the Retrial of Filton 24 by Keeping Jurors in the Dark

On the 13^th April I went to Woolwich Crown Court where the first 6 of the Filton 24 were facing a retrial. Last February all 6 defendants were acquitted of aggravated burglary, the most serious of the charges, carrying a life sentence.

Palestine Action defendants are blocked from explaining their motives or mentioning Israel, genocide, or the target of their actions

The British state is destroying its own courts to protect Israel's apartheid system

We are reporting this because British media can not https://t.co/wKVMecAqEE

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) April 14, 2026

Three of the six, were cleared by the jury of violent disorder and the prosecution last week offered no evidence on this charge against the remaining 3 defendants.

The only charges outstanding are those of criminal damage and in the case of Samuel Corner, Grievous Bodily Harm in respect of Police Sergeant Kate Evans.

Picket on the First Day of the Retrial

The mass media was full of allegations that Corner had deliberately attacked Evans with a sledgehammer. In fact the injury was barely noticeable and the charge of GBH is grossly excessive.

Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday – Cleared of Demonstrators

What the lying British media did not report was that Pava, a synthetic pepper spray had been directed at his face blinding him and then he heard a fellow actionist screaming out in pain. He swung his sledgehammer instinctively and having been blinded.  But you wouldn’t expect the feral British press to report the truth.

WATCH – Trudi Warner arrested, handcuffed, and carried for holding a placard with the law written on it outside Woolwich Crown Court.

“There’s a High Court Ruling about this law”

Trudi ought to know, because the case was “the Secretary General vs Trudi Warner”, and Trudi won. pic.twitter.com/i9UOorjpDz

— Defend Our Juries (@DefendOurJuries) April 23, 2026

Judge Jeremy Johnson – Doing His Best to Secure Guilty Verdicts – A Ruling Class Patsy

This week we learn, and thanks to Zarah Sultana for using her privelege to reveal this in a speech in the House of Commons, that Judge Jeremy Johnson, who  spent his legal life defending the State and MI6, including ruling that  Assange should be deported, has ordered that the jury should not be informed that if the defendants are convicted of criminal damage they will be sentenced as ‘terrorists’.

It is part of the sick society that we live in that you are a ‘terrorist’ if you damage a death factory that is producing drones to murder children and you are a hero if you profit out of those deaths. ‘Justice’ Jeremy Johnson is a fit representative of such a society but it is Starmer, Yvette Cooper and the coconuts that go by the name of Lammy and Shabana Mahmood who are presiding over this injustice.

The jury acquittals in February are why Lammy is determined to abolish jury trials for those liable for less than 3 year sentences. The jury is the one independent element in the whole so-called Justice System. Judges are appointed by the Executive and are their creatures. This so-called Labour Government is determined to continue where the last Tory government left off.  

Supporting Genocide is illegal under British law. Sections 51/52 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 make the commission or support of genocide a criminal offence. Yet last year the High Court allowed the government to continue to supply arms for that genocide citing ‘reasons of state’. 

Our judges have no morality and bend the law to fit what they see as the needs of the State. Just as they do their best to adjust their rulings to the needs of their class and justify it through the use of weasel words.

Picket on the First Day of the Retrial

BREAKING

A dozen sign-holders have shown up outside Woolwich Crown Court today.

This is in response to the Met’s draconian restrictions on yesterday’s peaceful (and totally lawful) vigil outside Woolwich Crown Court, where two sign-holders were unlawfully arrested.

Live 🧵 pic.twitter.com/3lONMKiEFd

— Defend Our Juries (@DefendOurJuries) April 24, 2026

Demonstrators Had Been Moved to the Opposite Side of the Road & Forbidden to Use Loud Hailers 

I was happy to be asked to speak to the wonderful people who had gathered there and who had congregated to make sure that the jury and others passing by knew that this trial was a fit up.

Five of the Filton 6

Woolwich Crown Court is next to Belmarsh Prison and it is surrounded by high metal fences. There was a heavy police presence because preventing justice being done is more important than catching rapists and other criminals.

I also went up on Thursday 23 April and it was a totally different atmosphere. The Met had applied Section 14 of the Public Order Act and cleared the entrance to the court of all demonstrators. I later learnt that two members of Defend Our Juries, including Trudy Warner, had been arrested for holding signs saying that the jury deserved to know the whole truth, not what they are spoonfed by Judge Johnson.

Other signs emphasised that a jury has the right to acquit according to their convictions and conscience. This dates back to the 1670 case of Edward Bushell when the Judge instructed the jury to convict William Penn and William Mead of having spoken to a seditious assembly. Only the state church had that right.

The First Day of the Retrial When Demonstrations Were Not Prohibited

Despite being locked up without food, water, fire or chamber pot the jury refused to convict and were heavily fined (the equivalent of one year’s wages. Edward Bushell was gaoled for refusing to pay the fine and was eventually released after a writ of habeus corpus was granted by a reluctant Chief Justice Vaughan.

Today there is a marble plaque at the Old Bailey commemorating this decision and it reads:

Near this site WILLIAM PENN and WILLIAM MEAD were tried in 1670 for preaching to an unlawful assembly … This tablet commemorates the courage and endurance of the jury,… who refused to give a verdict against them although locked up without food for two nights; and were fined for their final verdict of Not Guilty. The case of these jurymen was reviewed on a writ of habeas corpus and Chief Justice Vaughan delivered the opinion of the Court which established the right of juries to give their verdict according to their convictions.”

Edward bushells tribute on the wall of the old bailey

The Metropolitan Police arrest of the two demonstrators was an unlawful arrest whose purpose was to prevent the jury from knowing of their rights. On Friday another 12 people were arrested for holding similar signs. The Metropolitan Police are in the business of establishing a Police State courtesy of the lying Starmer and Mahmood.

The signs asserted the rights of jurors (jury equity). One of the two is Trudi Warner. She was holding the exact same sign she held when unlawfully arrested in 2023, which became the focus of a year-long case to prove that it is not unlawful to hold this sign outside a court.The High Court determined that holding such a sign is not illegal, (Solicitor General vs Trudi Warner) but the Met decided to simply ignore this case.

Not only are jurors in the Filton 24 trial being denied the truth inside court, their right to make a decision based on their conscience, irrespective of a judge’s direction, is also being hidden from them.

It is impossible to know at this stage what the decision of the jury will be. I’m told that it has less Black and Muslim people on it.  No doubt the state has vetted the lists beforehand.

Picket on the First Day of the Retrial

Let us hope that the Filton 6 are acquitted of the remaining charge and Samuel Corner is also found not guilty. Despite the lies of the Daily Mail and the Zionist Jewish Chronicle the Filton 24 are heroes and people like Jeremy Johnson and the Shabana Mahmoods of this world are the villains. See:

https://www.declassifieduk.org/julian-assange-judge-previously-acted-for-mi6/

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/elbit-raid-trial-latest-palestine-10914146Palestine Action’s ‘Filton 6’ cleared in ‘huge victory for moral courage in face of political pressure’