‘Zombie’ legal fight ends after eight years
A demonstrator at the 2011 royal wedding has lost her legal fight against her arrest
Two Quaker parents from Muswell Hill Meeting saw their adult daughter lose an eight-year legal fight against her pre-emptive arrest during 2011’s royal wedding.
Hannah Eiseman-Renyard was one of nine demonstrators dressed as zombies who were detained until after the duke and duchess of Cambridge kissed on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.
The group were told there had been no breach of their right to liberty after they took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.
The nine detained were from a group of twenty who gathered two miles from the wedding ceremony of prince William and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey. The event was organised to raise awareness of public service cuts that would hit the LGBT community and included ‘a zombie wedding’ in Soho.
Hannah Eiseman-Renyard said she had only joined the event to help film and report on it. She told the Friend: ‘I was in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong face paint. Apparently, the fact that we had left in the direction of the royal wedding meant that we were on our way towards it, even though the police had blocked most of the other roads.’
She told The Guardian: ‘This is not the outcome we hoped for after eight years of a really long fight. In 2011 the arrests were both unjust and unlawful. Today they remain unjust.’
