The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by two anti-Israel activists who attempted to overturn a conviction for trespass.
Matthew Richardson and Gwendolen Wilkinson had chained themselves to a concrete tube inside the London branch of Israeli cosmetics store Ahava in October 2010.
They were convicted of aggravated trespass the following year but claimed their actions were justified, accusing the firm of being complicit in “Israeli war crimes”.
Ahava’s Covent Garden branch, which sold products from an Israeli West Bank settlement, closed in 2011 after being regularly targeted by activists and demonstrations.