An "arrogant" anti-vaxxer smashed the windows of at Covid vaccination sites in Wales in a bizarre attempt to stop people getting their jabs. Paul Leonard Edwards insisted he was "justified" to carry out the attack at the two sites claiming his actions were his "last chance" of making an impact in influencing people against the vaccines.
However, Edwards - who believes coronavirus is part of some Chinese plan to destabilise the West, failed to convince the jury and was found guilty by a jury. The 58-year-old then also failed to persuade a judge that he should walk out of his court a free man when he appeared for sentencing - and was sent straight to jail.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said Edwards had no right to "enforce his views" by breaking the law. He said: "What you cannot do is to deliberately go out and break the law in order to impose your views on others. In this case, to try and prevent other people - many of whom were likely to be elderly or otherwise vulnerable - from getting their injections. I have no doubt that those people would have anxious and would seen those injection appointments as a lifeline, enabling them to achieve a degree of normality in their lives. For you to try and prevent them was not just misguided but, dare I say, arrogant."
