7 Dec 2025
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/12/the-filton-trial/

"The policewoman attacked by a sledgehammer" has been the constant refrain of
the government against Palestine Action. A couple of days before the judicial
review of the proscription in England, and despite fierce reporting restrictions
on the trial, the prosecution released to the media highly edited video footage
from the current trial in Woolwich Crown Court of six activists accused of the
attack inside Elbit Systems' Filton factory on August 6 2024.

While that video has fueled tens of thousands of zionist troll posts on social
media, the remarkable thing is that it is almost impossible to establish what it
shows.

In fact, had it been put out without the prosecution narrative, nobody would
have discerned that is what they were looking at. It shows chaotic fast moving
footage from bodycams.

The first sledghammer seen is plainly in the hands of a security guard - as
testimony in the trial, ignored by the MSM, has explained.

Here are some key facts:
* Every single prosecution witness who gave evidence about the melee was obliged
to change their statement when confronted by the defence with video evidence
which contradicted it. This included much more video than was released by the
prosecution.

* The prosecution produced a misleading account of the number and location of
CCTV cameras in the factory. They were obliged to present a new map showing
more cameras.

* The video evidence was left in or given into the hands of Elbit. A search of
Elbit's premises in November 2025 found the USB sticks of video in their
Metropolitan Police evidence bags in Elbit's safe.

The last fact is simply astonishing. The evidence collected and apparently
correctly bagged by the police had simply been handed over to Elbit, apparently
for over a year. This is only a part of a much wider collusion between Elbit and
the UK state, including the police.

One of the key demands of the Palestine Action hunger strikers in other cases -
of whom I will write further shortly - is the full release of correspondence
between UK authorities including the counter terrorism police, which has been
partially released and in very heavily redacted format.

Judge Johnson has directed the jury that the events in the Filton trial predated
the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist action and they must not
allow that subsequent development to influence them in any way.

There are six defendants in the current Woolwich trial, allegedly members of the
"overt group" or "red group" who entered inside the facility to do damage, while
a second "black" or "covert group" allegedly carried out a noisy distractive
action.

Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers
and Jordan Devlin are charged with aggravated burglary, criminal damage and
violent disorder.

In addition Samuel Corner is charged with grevious bodily harm with intent, an
offence potentially resulting in life imprisonment.

I must at this stage congratulate Real Media, who have been doing a wonderful
job of reporting the key events in the trial. As is to be expected, the
mainstream media has published nothing except what has been served up to them on
behalf of the prosecution and the state.

I am going to publish some key extracts that give you an idea of what has been
going on: