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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sammy Gecsoyler

Only five of 64 arrested at Charles’s coronation charged with an offence

Graham Smith wearing a yellow T-shirt that reads
Graham Smith, the chief executive of the anti-monarchy group Republic, was arrested and released later on the same day. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Only five of the 64 people arrested at King Charles’s coronation have been charged with an offence, the Metropolitan police have said.

At the coronation in May, the Met arrested 52 people for protest-related offences and a further 12 for offences not related to protest. On Wednesday, Scotland Yard said it had referred the cases of 21 people to the Crown Prosecution Service, 20 of whom were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

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