Red paint and broken glass could now cost five Palestinian activists a terrorist label — and years behind bars. A judge is weighing branding them terrorists for a Barclays bank protest, despite the charge never once being mentioned during their trial.
Brendon O'Hagan, Amanda Kelly, Hmeera Atiqnisar, Mohammed Malik and Alma Yaniv were convicted over £212,000 of damage at a Lancashire branch in 2024, smashing windows and hurling paint to protest the bank's ties to Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems. Now they face being sentenced under the same terrorism laws used against bombers and hijackers.