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‘Royal wedding raids’ judicial review

Posted: May 27th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: legal | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

Beginning tomorrow morning and lasting all week at the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand a number of different campaign groups, squatters, lawyers and individuals including Transition Heathrow are taking the Police to court over the Royal Wedding squat raids and heavy handed policing that occurred in the run up to last years wedding.

The judicial review could have groundbreaking implications for policing of protests in the UK and is particularly important with the upcoming Olympics.

The day before the Royal Wedding, our squatted community market garden project ‘Grow Heathrow’ was raided by 40 riot police at 7am in the morning along with 4 other squats across London. Why they chose to pay us an unwelcome visit remains unclear. Our part in the court case is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon so please follow our twitter to find out how it all goes in court.

We are still incredibly angry over the disproportionate raid and act of political policing that occurred last year, lets hope the courts see sense and send out a message to the police that they cannot do anything they like to put people off political protest.

The only other big question that needs answering is: will the police be submitting as evidence the ‘dangerous vegetables’ they found that morning?

Related blasts from the past

  1. John McDonnell speaks up in parliament about squat raids
  2. John Mcdonnell MP speaks at Emergency meeting
  3. Save Grow Heathrow!
  4. Grow Heathrow raided by 40 riot police

One Comment on “‘Royal wedding raids’ judicial review”

  1. 1 Day 1 of Judicial Review of Pre-emptive Arrests at the Royal Wedding | Defend the Right to Protest said at 12:27 pm on May 29th, 2012:

    [...] The barrister acting for the Metropolitan Police will begin Read Transition Heathrows press release on the judicial review here. [...]