Starmer Needs Palestine Action Crushed; Filton Retrial Hands Him a Problem
From Kernow Damo by Damien Willey
May 7, 2026 · 14 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of the Filton retrial on Palestine Action and the failures of the justice system in handling the case.
Starmer needed those Filton convictions to bury Palestine Action as a terror problem; instead the retrial has put state machinations in the dock. Right, so Keir Starmer’s Filton retrial has not given him the clean Palestine Action crushing he needed. It has given him four criminal damage convictions, two acquittals, a rejected GBH with intent charge, a defence barrister now facing contempt proceedings, defendants sent back to prison before sentencing, and a terrorism label still hovering over a case where nobody has been convicted of terrorism. That is a filthy little mess to carry out of court while pretending justice has been done. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Fatema Zainab Rajwani have been found guilty of criminal damage over the action at Elbit Systems UK’s Filton site near Bristol. Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin have been acquitted, even though all of them admitted to causing criminal damage. Work that one out. Samuel Corner has also been convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm, but he has been cleared of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, which is not a small distinction when the state has spent months trying to make this case smell as…
People in this episode
Host: Damien Willey
Topics covered
- Palestine Action
- Filton retrial
- criminal damage
- terrorism
- state machinations
- justice system
Keywords
- Filton retrial
- Palestine Action
- criminal damage
- Keir Starmer
- terrorism label
- court convictions
- justice system
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Elbit Systems UK
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