Activist ‘shocked’ at conviction for yelling at David Cameron

Bethan Tichborne to appeal against public order conviction for telling PM he had ‘blood on his hands’ during anti-cuts protest

By Mark Townsend and Tracy McVeigh

A woman has described her shock after being found guilty of a public order offence for telling David Cameron he had “blood on his hands”.

Bethan Tichborne, 28, said initially she assumed her court summons was a bureaucratic error after she was arrested for protesting against cuts to disability benefits. But she was told by a district judge that her comments must have hugely insulted the prime minister.

Cameron was switching on the Christmas lights in his Witney constituency in Oxfordshire, in December, when Tichborne tried to climb a barrier with her homemade placard. The one-woman protest, she claims, was against cuts leading to the deaths of people with disabilities. She believes her conviction at Oxford magistrates court last week was politically motivated.

District Judge Tim Pattinson told her: “It is difficult to think of a clearer example of disorderly behaviour than to climb or attempt to climb a barrier at a highly security-sensitive public occasion.”

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Bill Bard says:

So arrested for telling the truth…  I will say now that BLAIR & HAGUE have BLOOD on their hands, and 90% of all politicians are corrupt. THATCHER was an evil cow, but a bit late to do much about her now.

If they want to come for me, they are welcome.  The police are tarred with the same brush.  Maybe eventually they will wake up and realise that they are just pawns, doing the bidding of their masters.

Fuck the lot of em.

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