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Palestine activists convicted of harassing minister

UK Parliament Alex Davies-Jones' official House of Commons portrait. She has long blonde hair and is wearing a black dress with a red floral print across it UK Parliament
Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones told Cardiff Magistrates' Court that the abuse was relentless

Two women have been convicted of harassing a government minister.

Cardiff Magistrates' Court heard that justice minister and Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones was "terrified" after being confronted by two pro-Palestine activists while campaigning.

Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring found Ayeshah Behit, 31, and Hiba Ahmed, 26, from Treforest, Rhondda Cynnon Taf, guilty of harassment following a trial.

He gave them a conditional discharge and fine.

Davies-Jones said she felt "scared and intimidated" after being approached by Behit, 31, and Ahmed, 26.

The court heard Behit and Ahmed had leaflets describing the MP as a "full-blown er of this genocide" in Gaza.

Davies-Jones was approached while leafletting in the defendants' hometown on 26 June last year ahead of the general election.

The MP said she was asked questions "around the conflict in Israel and Palestine and my conduct as an MP, if I had taken part in votes, hip of organisations such as Labour Friends of Israel".

"They asked me about the ceasefire and why I had abstained. I clarified I hadn't abstained, I wasn't in the country, I was paired in that vote," she added.

"It was escalating in of ion and intensity. We walked off in the opposite direction. We felt scared and intimidated and we wanted to leave the situation.

"They began to follow us. They were shouting and bellowing down the street at us - 'why do you genocide, why are you murdering babies, Alex Davies-Jones, do you genocide":[]}