‘Yellow vests’ protesters storm Attorney General’s office
BRITISH “yellow vest” protesters wreaked havoc yesterday when they tried to storm the Attorney General’s office just hours after a leading member of the group appeared in court to deny calling an MP a Nazi.
The activists broadcast their demonstration live on Facebook as they chanted slogans and demanded a meeting with Geoffrey Cox.
Scores of protesters sat in stairwells, shouted through loudhailers and berated police as they declared: “The little people are here.”
The protest, which later ended peacefully with no arrests, related to the deaths of three teenagers who were killed when a motorist ploughed into them in Hayes, west London, last year.
Josh Mcguinness, George Wilkinson, both 16, and Harry Rice, 17, were killed instantly when Jaynesh Chudasama hit them after clipping a kerb.
The case has become a cause célèbre among far-right activists who claim the Asian motorist, who reached a speed of 71mph, was an Islamist terrorist whose massacre was covered up by police. The authorities say it was not terrorism, because no group claimed responsibility.
Chudasama is Hindu and while the consumption of alcohol is forbidden in the Islamic faith, he was two and a half times the legal drink drive limit.
Chudasama, from Hayes, pleaded guilty to three counts of causing death by dangerous driving. He was jailed for 13 years, a sentence later cut to 10 and a half years at the Court of Appeal.
Tracy Blackwell, mother of Josh Mcguinness, is active in the “yellow vests” and was understood to have been at yesterday’s demonstration.
Earlier, James Goddard, 29, appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court to deny calling the MP Anna Soubry a Nazi and traitor.