Pro-Palestinian Activists Given Suspended Sentences for Protest Outside Starmer’s Home

Three protesters who staged a pro-Palestinian demonstration which “effectively forced” Sir Keir Starmer’s wife out of her own home have been given suspended prison sentences. Leonorah Ward, 21, and Daniel Formentin, 24, both from Leeds, and Zosia Lewis, 23, from Newcastle, hung a banner outside the Labour leader’s home in north London which read, “Starmer stop the killing” on April 9 this year. They also placed painted bloody hand prints on the pavement and placed four rows of children’s shoes in front of the house to represent the hundreds of young people who have been killed in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli invasion which followed the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023....