Nearly 100 Arrests After Pro-Palestinian Protesters Breach London Jail
26th January 2026
Dozens of protesters have been arrested for trespassing at HMP Wormwood Scrubs during a demonstration in support of a Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike.
Some members of the group got into a lobby at the west London prison on Saturday night, banging lockers and chanting through megaphones.
Scotland Yard said that some demonstrators had threatened police officers and refused to leave the site when asked, preventing access for prison officers.
However, the protesters said they had been kettled by the Metropolitan Police and subjected to forceful arrest in the course of a peaceful protest. The Met said it had arrested 86 people for aggravated trespass.
Leftist protesters have a very strange definition of ‘peaceful’.