LIVERPOOL - A British court yesterday acquitted four women of causing £1.5 million worth of damage to a military jet that they alleged would be used by the Indonesian government against rebels in East Timor.
The women argued in court that they were disarming the Hawk jet, not vandalising it, when three of them broke into a British Aerospace factory in Lancashire last January.
The court in Liverpool accepted their argument that the damage in the factory was morally justified because the Indonesian government uses Hawk jets to bomb rebels in East Timor.