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Sarah Ward

Students spared jail for vandalising cabinet containing Stone of Destiny

The Stone of Destiny was targeted in the protest (PA) - (PA Archive)

Two activists have been spared jail after damaging a glass cabinet containing the Crown of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny during a protest against food poverty at Edinburgh Castle.

Jamie Priest, 26, and Catriona Roberts, 22, both students, targeted the cabinet in a protest linked to campaign group This is Rigged, which claimed responsibility on the day of the incident on November 15 last year.

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