Enviro-Nutters Power station protesters guilty
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03 July 2009
Twenty-two environmental campaigners have been found guilty of obstructing a train carrying coal to Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire.
Protesters boarded the train carrying coal into the station in June 2008 after it stopped for two men posing as railway staff, Leeds Crown Court heard.
The defendants, including three from West Yorkshire, were protesting against pollution at the station in Selby.
Judge James Spencer QC said they would not face a custodial sentence.
Sentencing was adjourned to a date in September.
Caused delays
The trial, which was scheduled to last two weeks but only ran for four days, heard how the train was stopped by two men posing as Network Rail staff, wearing orange jackets and hard hats, who held up a red flag.
