Druids

UK: Pagans arrested over Stonehenge trespass [correction]

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Correction: TWH incorrectly identified Angel Grace as a Witch in an earlier version of this story. She is actually a Druid and music bard, and we have corrected the article to reflect this. TWH apologizes for any confusion this may have caused. 

SALISBURY, England – Stonehenge has been back in the news recently with the arrest of three pagan women who are said to have breached access restrictions to the sacred site. Angela Grace, a Druid and bard, Maryam Halcrow, and Lisa Mead, who also identifies as a Druid, were found guilty of entering the site without reasonable excuse. All have received 6-month conditional discharges.

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UK News Briefs: two unrelated criminal cases both end in jail time

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Andover man jailed after using Pagan beliefs to justify criminal acts against children
ANDOVER, Hampshire, Eng. —  It is jail for paedophile who used ‘pagan’ beliefs to justify his crimes. Steven Lawrence Coatsworth, 52, of High Street, Andover, was sentenced in June to four and a half years in jail for paedophiliac offences, including attempting to arrange a sexual offence and making indecent images . Coatsworth was arrested by an officer who posed as the grandfather of an imaginary online 11 year old girl. Arrangements were made for him to travel from Andover to the north of England in order to meet both the girl and a 12 year old boy.