Kneecap rapper will not face terrorism trial after high court rejects CPS appeal

The Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh will not face a terrorism charge over an alleged display of a Hezbollah flag during a November 2024 performance at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town after the high court in London upheld a decision to throw out the case. Last September the chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, rejected the prosecution because of a filing error in the way the case was brought.

Goldspring had ruled prosecutors needed the attorney general’s permission to charge Ó hAnnaidh; that permission was sought and granted the next day, on 22 May, but the defence said the charge then fell outside the six-month timeframe for bringing such an offence.

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