Left-Wing Activist in the UK Jumps Bail, Goes on the Run

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His name is Sean Middleborough and he's a UK activist with Palestinian Action who has been arrested at least twice in the past two years. The first arrest came in January 2024 after he was involved in a plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange.

Sean Middleborough, 31, of Woodlee Road, Liverpool, appeared at Wirral Magistrates' Court charged with conspiracy to cause a public nuisance...
Activists from the group Palestine Action were allegedly plotting to target the London Stock Exchange on Monday, the Met said.
The force said activists had been planning to stop the exchange from opening for trading by "locking on" to the building, and causing damage.

It turned out that Middleborough and his Pal Action pals has been ratted out by an undercover reporter.

Middleborough had been exposed by Max Parry, a Daily Express reporter who’d gone undercover within Palestine Action, disclosing plans for an action the next day. Not only that, but it had been the Express that had passed evidence to the police, prompting the arrest of Middleborough and five others.
Ahead of the planned action, Middleborough hadn’t had any idea that Parry was a reporter. “They were a very enthusiastic individual,” Middleborough told Novara Media. “When I found out, I was like, ‘what?!’”

Middleborough was apparently released and then in November of last year he was named as a suspect in a break-in at an Israeli defense company. The break-in involved ramming a truck through the front doors of the building.

A man from Liverpool has been named as a suspect after a break-in a an Israeli defence firm's UK site. Elbit Systems UK’s site near Patchway, Bristol, was allegedly attacked by members of Palestine Action in the early hours of August 6, the Old Bailey heard previously.
A previous court hearing heard how a vehicle was driven into doors of the building during a protest and two police officers and a security guard were injured while responding. The Crown Prosecution Service has now confirmed a further eight people have been charged in relation to the alleged break-in, one of whom is from Liverpool. Ten others have appeared in court and are due to stand trial next year charged over the same incident.

He was arrested again and until recently he seems to have been held at Wandsworth jail awaiting trial. However, someone decided that Middleborough deserved to be released so he could attend his brother's wedding. You'll never guess what happened next.

Sean Middleborough, 32, was being held on remand at HMP Wandsworth in south-west London when he was granted bail for a weekend to attend his brother’s wedding. But he never returned to the prison.
Mr Middleborough, who is charged over an alleged plot by Palestine Action activists to disrupt the London Stock Exchange by locking themselves onto the building and causing criminal damage, is now the subject of an “urgent” police search...
It is understood the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had opposed granting Mr Middleborough bail for his brother’s wedding.

I don't completely understand the British system but it sounds like the prosecutors said 'don't release him' and some idiot judge replied 'nah, it'll be fine.' Now there's a manhunt to try to track him down.

Sadly, this isn't the only prisoner who has recently absconded from this particular jail.

Middleborough’s escape marks the most recent blunder from the scandal-plagued prison, which has seen multiple inmates wrongly freed in recent weeks.
Last week, it emerged that Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, and British fraudster William Smith, 35, were both mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth due to administrative errors involving incorrect paperwork or documents sent to the wrong facility.
Kaddour-Cherif was arrested on Friday, November 7, following a frantic police search, while Smith handed himself in.
Prison sources indicate at least four offenders who were accidentally freed remain at large, including two who were mistakenly released in 2024 and another pair freed in June 2025.

While he was out for the wedding, Middleborough gave an interview in which he claimed he planned to return to prison so he could join a hunger strike with his fellow activists. But I guess he changed his mind. Now his view is that he doesn't belong in prison and claims he's a prisoner of war.

In a statement exclusive to The Electronic Intifada, Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place...
Middlebrough, who is from Liverpool in northwest England, was on remand for a third time in connection with an August 2024 action at an Elbit weapons facility in Filton, a town near Bristol in southwest England...
During the Filton action, protestors allegedly drove a van into the factory and damaged Israeli weapons developed there. Middlebrough is accused of causing over $2.5 million in damages...
“I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison,” Middlebrough said in a statement obtained and verified by The Electronic Intifada. “Outrageously, 23 of my heroic and honorable co-defendants remain in prison following our kidnapping by counterterrorism police.”

If activists can drive trucks into buildings, injure people and do $2.5 million in damage and then walk away, the rule of law doesn't seem to be working in the UK anymore. Maybe they could try prosecuting these goons and then keeping them in prison instead of letting them out for weddings. And of course, it's a safe bet that whatever smooth-brained moron approved this won't face any repercussions at all. Hopefully they'll manage to recapture him.

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