A judge has dismissed criminal charges against a Glaswegian grandmother who was arrested for holding a sign offering consensual conversation in an abortion buffer zone.
Sheriff Stuart Reid dismissed two charges of alleged ‘influencing’ within a ‘buffer zone’ against Catholic grandmother Rose Docherty, 75.
Mrs Docherty was the first person to be criminally charged under Scotland’s 2024 buffer zone law, which criminalises protests against abortion.
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