Almost 90 arrested over mass trespass at prison in support of hunger striker

Members of the group allegedly breached prison grounds (Picture: Lab Mo/LNP)

Almost 90 people who ‘breached prison grounds’ at HMP Wormwood Scrubs have been arrested, the Met Police have said.

Eighty-six members of the group were detained on suspicion of aggravated trespass after they allegedly got inside a staff entrance area of the prison.

The activists were demonstrating last night in support of 22-year-old Umer Khalid, an alleged Palestine Action prisoner, who is on the...