Pro-Palestinian Protesters Jailed for Attack on UK Electronics Plant

(BBC News) Pro-Palestinian protesters who caused hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage to an electronics plant they believed was making circuit boards for Israeli drones have been jailed. Teledyne Labtech, in Presteigne, Powys, was targeted in December 2022. Four people were convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal damage and sentenced to 23 to 27 months. The combined cost of the damage and consequential costs for security measures totaled 1.2 million pounds, said the prosecutor. The factory, which employed 64 people, was closed for three weeks for the clean-up and repairs. It makes circuit boards for MRI scanners in hospitals, radars in planes and satellite antennas.


2023-06-29 00:00:00

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