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79-year-old peace campaigner Lindis Percy is bundled into a police car after attending a weekly vigil at Menwith Hill, the US’s Yorkshire spy base
A SEVENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD peace campaigner told the Star today that she was “roughed up” by Ministry of Defence police officers at a weekly vigil at Menwith Hill, the US’s Yorkshire spy base.
One witness said that retired nurse Lindis Percy had been “appallingly treated” as she was dragged to a police car last night.
Ms Percy said the rough treatment continued at Harrogate Police station, when the two MoD officers dragged her down a corridor and her jacket was pulled off over her head.
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