Three squatters on trial next week

On Sep­tem­ber 3 2012, some peo­ple were arrest­ed for being in a derelict build­ing under sec­tion 144 of the Legal Aid, Sen­tenc­ing and Pun­ish­ment of Offend­ers Act.

On Sep­tem­ber 3 2012, some peo­ple were arrest­ed for being in a derelict build­ing under sec­tion 144 of the Legal”>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/contents/enacted”>Legal Aid, Sen­tenc­ing and Pun­ish­ment of Offend­ers Act.

The three defen­dants are booked in for a two and a half day tri­al at Brighton Mag­is­trates Court (map) which starts at 10am Mon­day April 22 2013.

At this stage we think the tri­al will go ahead on this date. Come on down!! It’s gonna be a lot of fun. We are ask­ing peo­ple to be out­side court at 9.30am Mon­day.

The charges orig­i­nal­ly were squat­ting (under s144), obstruc­tion (of the police in their law­ful duty) and abstrac­tion (ie steal­ing elec­tric­i­ty). The abstrac­tion charge has already been dropped.

Here’s the con­tact details:
You can con­tact the sup­port group on housingwar@squat.net
Fone – 07599377058
Twit­ter – hous­ing­war (will be updat­ed dur­ing tri­al)
Web — rooftopresistance.squat.net