Stansted 15: ‘We are not terrorists, no lives were at risk. We have no regrets’
Two of the protesters convicted for preventing a deportation flight tell of their shock at the verdict
On a mild Tuesday night on 28 March last year a minibus containing 15 protesters inched up to the perimeter of Stansted airport away from the public terminal and towards the cargo field. Shaking with adrenaline, they clutched at boltcutters to rip a hole through the barbed-wire fence and scattered across the tarmac. Within eight minutes, their lives were changed for ever.
Last week, 623 days later, the Stansted 15, who that night had locked themselves on to a Titan Airways Boeing 767 secretly chartered by the Home Office, were convicted of terrorism offences at Chelmsford crown court. The group of nine women and six men had been protesting to stop
