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Henry Vaughan

Anti-lockdown protesters who ‘intimidated’ BBC journalist Nick Watt are sentenced

Martin Hockridge was given a 12-month community order

(Picture: PA Wire)

BBC journalist Nick Watt was “intimidated” after giving evidence against anti-lockdown protesters who were found guilty of verbally abusing him, a court has heard.

The prosecution barrister also had to be escorted out of Westminster Magistrates’ Court by police during the trial of Djazia Chaib-Eddour, 44, Martin Hockridge, 58, Alexander Peat, 34, Christopher Aitken, 62, and Gary Purnell, 45, it was said.

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