Greenpeace activists face retrial
3 May 2000
Greenpeace activists face retrial
GREENPEACE activists are to be retried in the genetically modified crop-wrecking case over which a jury could not agree, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday (2 May).
The 28 defendants, including Greenpeace executive director Lord Melchett, are accused of criminal damage.
A jury at Norwich Crown Court last month failed to reach a verdict on the trial of criminal damage, although the defendants were cleared of theft.
The case follows an incident in a field of GM maize at Walnut Tree Farm, Lyng, near Norwich last July.
- Jury undecided in Melchett trial, FWi, 20 April, 2000
- Greenpeace lord in court over GMs, FWi, 03 April, 2000
- Financial Times, 03/05/2000, page 5
- The Independent, 03/05/2000, page 2
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