Absconded Palestine Action Prisoner Speaks Out in Exclusive Novara Media Interview
Novara Live
Novara Media
4.8 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
We speak to absconded Palestine Action prisoner Sean “Shibby” Middlebrough.
Plus: The collapse of Starmer’s Labour continues, Kamala Harris is back on the airwaves, and a Tory MP has his feelings hurt by Aston Villa fans.
With NoJusticeMTG and Steven Methven.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters. |
| 0:11.6 | To become one, go to Navaramedia.com forward slash support. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to Navaralive. I'm Helena, aka No Justice MTG, and I'll be joined later tonight by Stephen Methon. |
| 0:24.7 | Coming up tonight, we've got an exclusive interview, which you definitely do not want to miss. |
| 0:29.6 | We've got Kamala Harris admitting some failures about her administration at an opportune moment, |
| 0:35.8 | and a conservative MP has gotten upset at some protesters. |
| 0:41.0 | As ever, if you'd like to support our work, you can sign up at Novaramedia.com forward slash support. |
| 0:46.6 | Sean Chiby Middlebro was a prisoner in HMP Wandsworth, held on remand while awaiting trial for over a year. |
| 0:53.0 | That's 12 months in jail without ever |
| 0:54.6 | having been convicted of a crime. One of the Filton 24, he was arrested in charge in November |
| 0:59.1 | 2024, following a Palestine Action direct action to disable an Albert weapons plant in Filton near Bristol, |
| 1:05.7 | that he is alleged to have participated in that. As you know, Palestine action was proscribed |
| 1:10.8 | as a terrorist organization in July |
| 1:12.7 | by then Home Secretary of Ed Cooper. It is currently an offense under the terrorism legislation |
| 1:19.1 | to express support for the group, though that prescription will be the subject of a judicial review |
| 1:24.1 | by the end of this month. Middlebrous trial in the Filton case is not set to begin |
| 1:28.6 | until the middle of next year, meaning he would have spent nearly two years in prison before ever |
| 1:33.2 | facing a jury. But last week, he was granted conditional bail to attend a family event. |
| 1:39.3 | Midlebro never returned to the prison and is now at large, wanted by the police. |
| 1:43.8 | Early today, my colleague Stephen Methan spoke to Middleborough from an undisclosed location. |
| 1:50.4 | Sean, you were granted conditional bail to go and attend a family event, so you were freed from H&P, |
| 1:57.3 | Wonsworth, where you'd been held on remand for over a year. |
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