Activist 'shocked' at conviction for yelling at David Cameron [View all]

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Activist 'shocked' at conviction for yelling at David Cameron http://gu.com/p/3efmd/tw via @guardian #PoliceStateUK


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/16/activist-shocked-conviction-cameron-protest?CMP=twt_gu

A woman has described her shock after being found guilty of a public order offence for telling David Cameron he had "blood on his hands".

Bethan Tichborne, 28, said initially she assumed her court summons was a bureaucratic error after she was arrested for protesting against cuts to disability benefits. But she was told by a district judge that her comments must have hugely insulted the prime minister.

Cameron was switching on the Christmas lights in his Witney constituency in Oxfordshire, in December, when Tichborne tried to climb a barrier with her homemade placard. The one-woman protest, she claims, was against cuts leading to the deaths of people with disabilities. She believes her conviction at Oxford magistrates court last week was politically motivated.

(More at the link.)