A Palestine Action defendant was left with multiple wounds and bruises caused by blows from a sledgehammer and a police officer’s taser, an English court heard on Thursday.
A medical report recorded that Leona Kamio, a 30-year-old nursery school teacher, had taser wounds to her right arm and right hip, a bruise to the chin, a small scratch and another wound caused by a sledgehammer to the right hand after being arrested at an Israeli-owned arms factory.
Kamio, along with fellow defendants Charlotte Head, 29, Jordan Devlin, 31, Fatema Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Samuel Corner, 23, faces charges of criminal damage in connection with a break-in to a factory owned by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems at Filton, near Bristol, in August 2024.
Corner additionally faces a charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent for allegedly striking a police officer with a sledgehammer.
Footage shown in London’s Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday showed police officer Peter Adams pulling his taser out, raising it at Kamio and shouting at her and fellow defendant Zoe Rogers during the factory raid.