A Canvey peace protester is considering an appeal after she was found guilty of criminal damage at an American airbase.

But Irene Willis, 59, of Parkway, said she would not give up protesting against RAF Lakenheath.

On October 6 last year, Mrs Willis, together with Jennifer Berry, Catherine Cooke and Melanie Harrison, all from Suffolk, cut a hole in the base's perimeter fence and climbed through.

Last week the women, who called themselves the Fallout Fairies, were each sentenced to three years' conditional discharge and fined £500 costs at Mildenhall Magistrates' Court for damaging the airbase's fence.

The judge called them misguided and said he was doing everything he could to stop them trying anything of that nature again.

He added he had even considered imposing an Anti-Social Behaviour Order on them.

The four anti-nuclear campaigners believed nuclear weapons were being held at the Suffolk base and said they tried to get into the base to get photographic evidence.

Published Tuesday June 1, 2004

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