Sussex police were reportedly 'livid' yesterday (Wednesday 15th), that their attempt, in the morning to stop the 8 arrested people from the Smash EDO May 31 Big Demo from protesting out side th EDO bomb factory, by means of exclusionary bail conditions, had been blocked in court.

The irony was that it was because of the interim High Court civil injunction brought by EDO MBM against anti-war protests outside their factory, that the District Judge refused to keep the bail conditions that banned all the defendants from the area. All 8 defendants yesterday and today pled not-guilty to the charges before them ranging from Obstruction of Highway to Police Assault. They join 3 other activists who have also had bail conditions over going to the factory lifted in the last week due to the overiding authority of the high court injunction.

The interim injunction signed by a London High Court Judge, and allowing restricted protest at the factory was considered an authority by the Brighton District Judge, so she changed bail conditions to fit in with the terms of the injunction which do not ban access to a grass verge opposite the bomb factory, or protesting there.

Today's regular Wednesday demo was thus well attended by individuals who EDO had thought they had seen the last of for some time.

In repsonse Sussex Police took the unprecedented step in this case of arresting someone (actually a legal observer in a marked yellow jacket) for an alleged minor
breach of the injunction-alleged by an unknown man in a black suit who remains unidentified but appears to believe he has the right to order people around and steal their belongings-the police charges remain unclear at this point in time.

The legal observer has been kept in custody overnight to appear in Brighton Magistrates Court at 10am Wednesday morning. A support demo outside the court has been called. He is the first to be arrested under the terms of the EDO interim injunction.