Trial aborted and jury discharged without a verdict in XR cofounder Gail Bradbrook’s Department for Transport case
As deadly temperature records are set daily, the silencing of those that would speak truth to power in climate trial after climate trial can be felt. And it's chilling. The long-postponed jury trial of Dr. Gail Bradbrook, for window-breaking at the Department for Transport was aborted this week when the judge dismissed the jury. A retrial is now set for the week commencing 30 October meaning it will take place during the fifth anniversary of the Declaration of Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion’s first major action. Before the trial Gail said: “I’m trying to protect the lives and the futures of my children, all the children in the world and the generations to come."
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