Aberdeen Press and Journal 

November 9, 2001 SECTION: NEWS:OTHER:Others, Pg.3

GM crop protesters deny obstruction

FIVE protesters against GM crop trials in the Black Isle appeared at
Dingwall Sheriff Court yesterday. Catriona Spink, 36, of Tie na Coorin,
Tom a Mhoid, Gorthleck; Andrew Aikman, 55, c/o Well Cottage, Woodhead,
Kinloss; James Grigg, 39, of Linfield, Cawdor Road, Auldearn; Daniel
Puplett, 25, of 212A Findhorn, Forres, and Donnie MacLeod, 53, of
Kylerona Farm, Ardersier, denied trespassing and disrupting or
obstructing sowing activities at Tullich Farm, by Munlochy, on August
23. Puplett also denied obstructing four police officers in the
execution of their duty by struggling violently with them. Spink is
accused of running into the path of a tractor, causing the driver to
brake, climbing on to the tractor roof and refusing to come down, while
MacLeod, an organic farmer, is accused of padlocking himself to a
tractor. Aikman is said to have fastened himself to a seed drill with a
chain and padlock, Grigg to have run into the path of a tractor and
crawled under the vehicle, and Puplett to have taken hold of a seed
drill and refused to release it. Trial was fixed for January 18.