A PEACE campaigner from North Yorkshire has seen charges of trespassing at a RAF base thrown out.

Veteran protester Lindis Percy, 69, from Harrogate, defended herself against accusations of trespass at RAF Mildenhall, which is occupied by the US Air Force, during a trial at Bury St Edmunds Magistrates’ Court.

The trial heard Ministry of Defence Police arrested her in October 2009 when she walked onto the base through a manned checkpoint, with the station commander, Squadron Leader Richard Fryer, saying she had entered a section protected by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act.

But Ms Percy said she had been given permission to enter the base and had shown her driving licence to a checkpoint guard, and that she was carrying out research into the site on behalf of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases, of which she is joint co-ordinator.

District judge David Cooper dismissed the case a day into the trial.