Palestine Action activists wanted to smash up Elbit Systems’ property, court told

Palestine Action activist Jordan Devlin outside Woolwich crown court, London, where he is facing a retrial, along with fellow activists Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Katema Rajwani and Zoe Rogers, on criminal damage charges. Photograph: Ben Whitley/PA

Six Palestine Action activists entered an Israeli-linked arms factory intending to smash up as much property as possible before police arrived, a court has heard.

Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said the defendants used sledgehammers and crowbars to destroy drones manufactured by Elbit Systems and computers at its factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August last year.