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PA mediaAn anti-overxit activist has been authorized to violate a police ban after playing music in speakers in a protest outside the Parliament in London.
Steve Bray, 56, faced the trial for the incident in the Plaza del Parliament, which took place before the then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was interrogated by parliamentarians in the House of Commons on March 20 of last year.
Bray, known as “Stop Brexit Man”, denied that the position and previously had to study the field playing music was part of his “fundamental right to protest.”
On Monday, Bray was declared not guilty of not following a police order, at a hearing at the Westminster Judge Court.
Giving his trial, the attached judge of District Anthony Woodcock said of Bray: “Hello, he admitted that it is” Anti-to “, who is his words.
“He believes that his is an important message to disseminate. He needs the volume of using the message on the other side of Parliament Street to the Westminster Palace.”
The defendant, of Port Talbot, South Wales, admired the public gallery and one of his supporters gave the verdict a good.
Bray is known for playing music at full volume in protests in Westminster, including D: ream things, they can only improve at Downing Street doors when Sunak announced the general elections in the rain that foster last May.
The police approached Bray around 11:20 on March 20 of last year, minutes before Sunak arrived before Prime Minister’s questions.
Bray had leg editions of Muppets and Darth Father themes in their speakers.
The songs were used “when the prime minister entered, what we always do for Rishi, apparently he is a fan of Star Wars,” the activist told the court.
The officers gave him a map and a notice that he warned that he was prohibited from interpreting speakers in the controlled area under a statute, according to the court.
The court heard that the music resumed intermittently and shortly after 12:33, the officers seized the speakers.
Bray had accused of failing without a precise excuse to fulfill an address granted under the Law of Police and Social Responsibility of 2011 “revitated activities in the Plaza del Parliament.”
His trial previously listened that Bray had told the police his map, which illustrates where the speakers could not use, it was incorrect.
The images used in the body presented Bray, with a yellow and blue hat hat, they repeatedly tell the police “you have the wrong map.”
He said he was outdated and that officers would love to ask someone higher in the chain of command.
When he was not allowed to play the music there, Bray put his fingers in his ears and said: “No, it is not, it is not, not here, it is not bad here,” the court heard.
“I know what I can’t do,” he said, suggestion officers hit him “where the sun does not shine” before lighting a cigarette and looking the other way.
Several witnesses described the court the negative impact of Bray’s music, heard to sixth floor in nearby buildings.
After hearing this, Bray apologized at a previous judicial hearing.
