London - Greenpeace campaigners yesterday claimed to have undermined the whole programme of testing genetically modified crops after destroying a field of GM maize.
Norfolk police arrested 30 people, including the executive director of Greenpeace, Lord Melchett, a former Northern Ireland junior minister, after a farm mower was used to cut down the crop at Lyng, near Norwich, yesterday morning.
The saboteurs were arrested at about 5.45 a.m. and taken to various police stations in Norfolk where they were being questioned. Greenpeace said the raid, the third on a GM test crop in eight weeks, was an act of "decontamination".