Protesters who stormed building found not guilty Xstrata

Thirteen protesters who stormed the central London headquarters of a mining company have been found not guilty of public order offences.

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Members of the Occupy London movement broke away from a mass protest on 30 November 2011 and headed to Panton House, the head office of Anglo-Swiss mining company Xstrata.

They were protesting about the record £18.4m pay package that CEO Mick Davis had recently been awarded.

The protesters barged in to the building and headed to the roof where they unfurled a banner proclaiming ‘All Power To The 99%’. Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s elite Territorial Support Group promptly turned up and arrested those on the roof under section 5 of the Public Order Act.

District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe dismissed the charges heard in the five-day trial at Westminster Magistrates Court number one.

Judge Roscoe also decided against issuing any ‘binding over’ conditions that to the group.