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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Euston tunnellers’ court victory at risk as CPS seeks to overturn verdict

A worker walks past a construction site for a section of Britain's HS2 railway project at Euston station.
A worker walks past a construction site for a section of Britain's HS2 railway project at Euston station. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

The Crown Prosecution Service has launched a high court challenge to the decision by a judge last year to let the Euston tunnellers walk free after their trial.

The highly unusual move, which seeks a judicial review of the decision to dismiss charges against six HS2 protesters who spent a month in tunnel in front of Euston train station, has led to claims by environmental activists that the CPS is interfering with the right to protest non-violently about the climate emergency.

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