Following a banner demanding “Freedom to Protest” and drummed along by a Samba band the mob descended down North St and onto the lair of the beast itself - John St nick. This forced cops to form lines to defend their own station. After some brief and entertaining scuffling, caused by one protestor scrambling onto a parked police car the crowd moved back into town to avoid being caught in a cordon.

The crowd swelled as it moved back up North St and culminated on the Western Rd. One activist said “Hopefully the police are going to be forced to realise that they can't clamp down on demos outside the weapons factory with impunity – we've got a lot of people behind us”

Two arrests were made and Forward Intelligence Team/ National Public Order Intelligence Unit officers were around taking shots of all and sundry.