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Man accused of trespassing at incinerator site
A MAN has appeared in court accused of aggravated trespass at the site of the proposed incinerator in Newhaven.
Robert Doyle, 29, of no fixed address, was one of four people arrested and charged after protesters entered the site in the early hours of last Tuesday.
The other three were bailed to await a court hearing today (Wednesday) but Doyle was kept in custody after refusing to abide by bail conditions that police sought to impose on him.
The defendant, who sports a distinct orange Mohican, finally won his freedom during a hearing before Lewes magistrates last Wednesday after a legal compromise.
Doyle and the others are alleged to have entered the controversial site, protected by six-feet high mesh fencing topped with barbed wire, shortly before 4am and chained themselves to a crane.
They are charged with failing to comply with a police direction to leave the site under the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.
Magistrates were told that police had been prepared to free Doyle on bail subject to strict conditions — but he refused because one condition forbade him from having any contact with 22-year-old co-defendant Jennifer Allott.
Alison Reeby, defending Doyle, told the court that Miss Allott, of Brighton, was his girlfriend and that explained his refusal to accept the conditions.
A compromise was reached which allows Doyle and his girlfriend to be together but forbids them from having any contact with the other two co-defendants Joe Freeth, 23, of Brighton, and Jonathan Twigg, 21, of Southampton.
Doyle was also forbidden from entering Newhaven for any reason and prohibited from contacting any prosecution witnesses or any employee or other person connected to the incinerator site.
He must also report daily to Brighton police station between the hours of 10am and 12noon.
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