Three Held at Stansted Airport After Deportation Protesters Lock Themselves to Plane

March 29, 2017

Three people have been arrested after anti-deportation protesters locked themselves to a plane at a major airport.

Flights were temporarily suspended at Stansted Airport on Tuesday evening after the group entered a secure area and erected a blockade near a non-commercial runway.

Police quickly contained the incident and flights resumed, but several activists remained at the scene into the early hours of Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/29/three-held-stansted-airport-deportation-protesters-lock-plane