In court for shouting at a BBC journalist

An anti-lockdown protester has denied hounding BBC journalist Nicholas Watt in Whitehall. Martin Hockridge, 57, yelled ‘Traitor!’ at the Newsnight political editor on 14 June – but he denies it was a ‘threatening or abusive word’ to use. Footage shared widely on social media shows a swarm of protestors chasing the journalist on Whitehall, then onto Richmond Terrace. Later that evening Hockridge was charged under the Public Order Act with using ‘threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards another…