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Aggravated burglary charges dropped against 18 pro-Palestine activists
The Guardian
|February 19, 2026
Prosecutors have dropped aggravated burglary charges against 18 defendants accused of a Palestine Action break-in at an Israeli defence firm's UK site after a jury cleared six other defendants of the offence.
Jordan Devlin, Leona Kamio, Zoe Rogers, Fatema Rajwani and Charlotte Head walk free from Woolwich crown court yesterday
(LUCY NORTH/PA)
Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31, were all acquitted of aggravated burglary, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, with respect to the 6 August 2024 raid on Elbit Systems, in Filton, near Bristol.
At a case management hearing at Woolwich crown court, London, for all 24 defendants charged in relation to the break-in, Deanna Heer KC said: "The prosecution has reconsidered the sufficiency of the evidence ... In light of those verdicts and in respect of all the remaining defendants the prosecution offers no evidence on count one, aggravated burglary."
The remaining 18 defendants accused of involvement were all being held in prison awaiting trial, except Sean Middlebrough, who absconded while on conditional release from Wandsworth prison, London, in October last year.
This story is from the February 19, 2026 edition of The Guardian.
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