Community service for pro-life campaigner
Published: December 17th, 2014
Northern Irish pro-life campaigner, Bernadette Smyth, has been sentenced to 100 hours of community service, ordered to pay £2000 in compensation and barred from going within 20 yards of Northern Ireland's first private abortion facility for five years.
Bernie had led demonstrations outside the facility since it opened in 2012 but was convicted of harassment in a controversial decision late last year. She plans to appeal the conviction, a move supported by the Christian Legal Centre.
