West Midlands Police have relaxed the ‘onerous’ bail conditions placed on Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the charity worker who has been arrested for the second time for praying silently outside an abortion facility in Birmingham.
Vaughan-Spruce, who has been a volunteer for crisis pregnancy help services for 20 years, was arrested on 6 March for praying in a so-called ‘buffer zone’ around an abortion facility on Station Road in Birmingham.
The zone is imposed by a local Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), which prohibits ‘protests’ near the abortion facility, including prayer.
Following her arrest, police imposed bail conditions that prohibited her presence in an area considerably larger than the buffer zone, including outside a local church where she wanted to lead a prayer group during Lent.
