Activists accused of blocking Stansted flight go on trial over terror charge

The 15 anti-deportation activists are accused of blocking the takeoff of a flight chartered by the Home Office.Fifteen activists who locked themselves together around an immigration removal charter flight to prevent its departure from Stansted and displayed a banner proclaiming “mass deportations kill” have gone on trial charged with a terrorist offence.Jurors at Chelmsford crown court heard how the members of the campaign group End Deportations used lock-on devices to secure themsel