Conviction of environmental activist Emma Sheppard marks first success of Avon and Somerset police over anarchist campaign against ‘establishment’ targets An environmental activist has been jailed for two years for putting the lives of police officers in danger by targeting patrol cars with homemade tyre-deflation spikes to “give them a taste of their own medicine”.
Emma Sheppard,with an accomplice, brought three police cars to a juddering halt on original Year’s Eve 2014 in Bristol by puncturing their tyres with the crude device made of plywood and nails.
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Source: theguardian.com