Palestine Action activists who caused £1 million of criminal damage to an Israel -linked defence firm could be sentenced as “terrorists”, it can now be revealed.

Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Fatema Rajwani were all convicted over the 6 August 2024 raid on the Elbit Systems factory in Bristol .

The activists, who were armed with sledgehammers and crowbars, smashed into the site using an old prison van.

Corner fractured a police officer’s spine during the fracas.

The four defendants claimed that the action was necessary to protect Palestinians.

They were convicted at Woolwich Crown Court last week of criminal damage , while Corner was also found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm.

Palestine Action activists, from left, Jordan Devlin, Leona Kamio, Zoe Rogers, Fatema Rajwani and Charlotte Head outside Woolwich Crown Court, London; Rogers and Devlin were acquitted of criminal damage over the raid (PA)

It can now be reported that Mr Justice Johnson, in a pre-trial ruling, found that…