One man was on trial on Monday 27th July for assault police and obstruct police at October's Shut ITT demonstration against EDO MBM/ITT in Brighton (see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/410912.html).

At the demo hundreds of activists braved the pouring rain to march from Sussex University to EDO MBM. Despite police attempts to push demonstrators into a kettle at the bottom of Home Farm Road and the blocking of Lewes Road by hundreds of officers the demonstrators took to the woods behind EDO, made it, along woodland paths, to the rear of the factory, covered it in red paint and then marched into Brighton town centre.

The case on the 27th related to a man arrested early on in the demo as the protesters were preparing to set off. Police had imposed a section 60 direction prohibiting the wearing of masks and, although the man accused had uncovered his face he was still wearing a bandanna around his neck. He was arrested for obstruct police and eventually convicted. He was fined £200.

He was also alleged to have attempted to pull off a policeman's helmet and had been charged with assault police. There was only one, extremely inconsistent, police witness to this incident and he was found not guilty.