Four anti-ULEZ activists have pleaded not guilty to harassing Sadiq Khan at his family home.
A 61-year-old plasterer from Beckenham, a 73-year-old retired builder from West Wickham, a 64-year-old man from Bexleyheath and a 50-year-old former teaching assistant from Windsor appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday (August 9).
The activists were charged with harassment of a person in his home following an anti-ULEZ protest in Tooting on April 6.
A fifth man, aged 64, was charged with obstructing/resisting a police officer in the execution of their duty in relation to the same incident.
The group have dubbed themselves ‘the Tooting Five’.
During a brief hearing the four pleaded not guilty to harassment of a person in his home:
- Martin Whitehead, a 61-year-old plasterer from Beckenham
- Nicholas Arlett, a 73-year-old retired builder from West Wickham
- Lloyd Dunsford, a 64-year-old from Bexleyheath
- Alison Young, a 50-year-old former teaching assistant from Old Windsor
They are set to face a trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in November.
The charge sheet states that they were present in the vicinity of Sadiq Khan's home and that they intended their presence to amount to harassment of, or cause alarm or distress, to Mr Khan.
They were released on bail with conditions not to enter certain roads near the Mayor of London’s home in Tooting.
The fifth - Kevin Stredder, 64, of Windsor – was charged with obstructing/resisting a police officer in the execution of their duty but these were dropped during the brief hearing.
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