Former Belfast Councillor Jolene Bunting has been convicted of participating in an unlawful parade to oppose the Northern Ireland Protocol.
The 31-year-old activist was given a conditional discharge for taking part in the unnotified public procession. Ms Bunting faced prosecution over an anti-protocol event staged in the Tullycarnet area of East Belfast on June 23, 2021.
The former independent unionist councillor, from Highcliff Gardens in the city, insisted she was unaware it breached notification requirements within the Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998. Her 33-year-old co-defendant Wayne Cummings, with the same address, was also convicted of the same offence.
