In addition to beating the most serious charge, the jury acquitted Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin of violent disorder. It refused to convict Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner and Leona Kamio of the same charge.
Samuel Corner was also not convicted of "grievous bodily harm with intent" for allegedly striking a police officer.
Crucially, the jury refused to convict any of the defendants of criminal damage.
Yet five of the group had admitted in court to destroying Israeli weapons and equipment belonging to Elbit at the factory.
That the jury could not reach a majority verdict on some of the lesser charges means in theory that there could be retrials in some cases - though that is not expected to have a realistic chance of success.
That is why the sixth defendant, Samuel Corner, was not immediately released on bailed on Wednesday. Government prosecutors asked the court for more time to decide if they wanted to pursue a retrial in relation to the grievous bodily harm charge.
The Palestine Action source also said that certain issues relating to matters under reporting restrictions imposed by the judge in this trial meant that the verdict was the best possible outcome for the group.
The source said that the verdict represented a "total victory" for the six Palestine Action campaigners.
Most of the remaining "Filton 24" group have been held on draconian remand for months - for more than a year in some cases.
But one, Sean Middlebrough, escaped during a short-term release in November last year. In an exclusive statement, he told The Electronic Intifada that he was not on the run, and was instead "refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison."
Government ministers such as former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper attempted to portray the Filton activists as violent criminals who assaulted a police officer. The British press for the most part obediently parroted such claims and insinuations.
But during this "Filton 6" trial, body-cam footage released to the jury - some of which can be viewed in the video above - showed the exact opposite: Elbit security guards apparently assaulting the activists with sledgehammers.
In a statement released on Wednesday the Filton 24 Defence Committee said the result was a "monumental victory."
The committee detailed how the trial unfolded.
According to the committee, the verdicts demonstrated that "the jury did not accept the prosecution case that the defendants entered the Elbit weapons factory with the intention of using the items they carried as weapons."
They said that instead the "jury agreed with the defense argument, that the defendants' sole intention was to use the items, including sledgehammers, as tools to disarm Israeli weapons ... The jury understood that it is not those who destroy Israeli weapons which are guilty, rather the guilty party is the one that deploys such weapons to commit genocide in Gaza."
The trial also revealed that footage went missing from a number of Elbit's internal CCTV cameras covering key angles, the committee said. The security guards' body-worn videos had also been repeatedly turned off and on, as well as edited by Elbit.
Twenty-first century suffragettes
Defense lawyer Rajiv Menon compared the six to the suffragettes - women who demanded the right to vote. In the early 20th century, the suffragettes were routinely denounced as "terrorists and extremists," although "the reality of course is very different," Menon said.
The lawyer also said that Judge Jeremy Johnson tried to exclude evidence on Elbit Systems, and interrupted when counsel for the defense asked questions about the Israeli weapons manufacturer.
Menon said that the judge "has restricted what the defendants have been allowed to tell you ... what they knew about Elbit's role in the Israeli attack on Gaza. The consequence of that is that you do not know everything that the defendants knew about Elbit before" they took action against the factory.
The lawyer told the jury that Elbit is a "massive weapons company that has played a critical role in the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians."
At the end of the evidence, the judge told the jury that the "situation in the Middle East" and Elbit's operations are "not relevant" to the case and directed the jury to "follow the legal directions I've given you and not anything else."
The judge also issued a series of reporting restrictions on the case. As a result, I am still prevented from reporting certain details here.
Nonetheless, because the case was heard in open court, I am able to report the following.
During the trial, a juror asked whether they were allowed to acquit because the defendants genuinely believed that they were destroying weapons to prevent their use in genocide.
The judge's response was "no."
Trials of the remaining Filton 24 prisoners are still due to happen at some point in the future.
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Craig Murray: There cannot be a retrial. The police have massively prejudiced it.
Posted by sashimi on February 5, 2026, 1:53 pm, in reply to "Declassified vid"
In the same way they massively prejudiced this trial by issuing a highly misleading and selective clip from the extensive video evidence available to the jury.
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Craig Murray: Filton Acquittals Demolish Starmer and Cooper Lies About Palestine Action
As the trial finished at Woolwich Crown Court of the six Palestine Action activists who entered the Filton factory to destroy Israeli killer drones, Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Mahmood are left bereft of a single guilty verdict in the case on which they relied heavily to label Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
I could not, on pain of imprisonment, tell you this during the trial. One item produced by the prosecution as evidence was the notebook of Charlotte Head, on which she had written details from her training session with Palestine Action and of the proposed direct action against Elbit's drone factory.
The first ten pages of her notes were about the Israeli weapons company Elbit, their footprint in the UK, their corporate structure and the weapons they manufacture, and the evidence of the use of their weaponry in the genocide in Gaza.
The jury were shown the notebook but were specifically not allowed to see the first ten pages. Throughout the trial anything that referred to the crimes of Elbit, their role in the mass killing and mutilation of women and children, and their cosy relationship with the British government, was excluded from the jury. The judge continually stopped the defence lawyers from asking or saying anything about who ELbit are or why their property was being attacked.
The defendants were not permitted therefore to explain to the jury why they did what they did, which you might have believed was a pretty fundamental right. The jury were additionally in effect instructed by Judge Johnson to convict on the least serious charge, that of of criminal damage.
But despite the state taking every possible precaution to ensure that the state got its convictions in this show trial, the jury refused to find that trying to stop Genocide is a crime.
on February 5, 2026, 8:17 am