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Charges dropped against anti-monarchy protester who shouted ‘who elected him?’ at King Charles proclamation
Symon Hill

AN anti-monarchist arrested for protesting at a proclamation ceremony for King Charles III has had all charges against him dropped.

Symon Hill of campaign group the Peace Pledge Union shouted: “Who elected him?” during the event at Carfax Tower in Oxford on September 11 last year.

He was handcuffed and bundled into a police van for behaviour causing “harassment, alarm or distress” under the Public Order Act.

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