I just read on the BBC, about this police mole who infiltrated an environmental activist group: BBC

It reports that the group were to be charged with “Conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass” so, in light of occasional talk about a “Kinder Scout” style mass trespass by cyclists, I thought I’d look it up: freebeagles

So my reading is that key to the charge is planning to disrupt the legal activity of the landowner. Isn’t that pretty much what Benny Rothman and the others did?

Did they really disrupt the legal activity of the landowner in the KT? Surely they just went for a jolly ramble… If they’d been walking in front of a farmer’s plough, stopping him ploughing then that’d be different but..

I’m not sure. Folks were excluded from the land because it was used for grouse shooting by the landowner and paid-up shooting parties, I think. I reckon if this was done to today, ringleaders would be picked up on this charge.