Jennifer Berry (65), Katie Cooke (35), Mell Harrison (33), and Irene Willis (59) were given a three year conditional discharge, and ordered to pay a total of £2000 costs. The judge said that they were misguided, and presumed that all activities on the base were legal, and that the military could not break the law. He made it clear that he was doing all in his power to try to prevent them from taking further actions, and said he had considered imposing an Anti Social Behaviour Order.

The four women, the Fallout Fairies, were surprised by the severity of the sentence. "We belive the truth of the matter is that the authorities know that the presence of US nuclear weapons in Suffolk would be extremely unpopular and therefore prefer to keep up the charade. This is about democracy and contempt for democracy by those in power. It's not that we haven't tried to ask for information on the US nukes inside RAF Lakenheath before. We have written to the base, reported the illegal B-61’s to the police, our MPs, and our PM and we've protested outside the base many times. But even our MPs are not allowed to know the details of what happens inside this U.S base in Suffolk."

It is believed that the judge may have misdirected himself in law, and a possible appeal to a higher court is pending.

All the defendants have had long experience as peace and anti-nuclear campaigners, and they all said that they turned to direct  action because they felt that lawful, conventional protests were not as effective as they had hoped, and they felt the urgent need to do what they could to prevent the use of nuclear weapons.
 
They presented documentary evidence for the presence of nuclear bombs at Lakenheath, and insisted that these bombs are illegal under British and international law. "They are illegal under the Geneva Conventions because of the widespread devastation they cause," said Ms. Harrison. "They cannot discriminate between military and civilian targets. They are disproportionately destructive of life and property. They cause toxic contamination for generations."
 
Their action was intended to expose and report a crime to the public and to the authorities, with the ultimate purpose of getting the bombs removed from Britain. They also argued that the presence of the bombs is very dangerous even if they are not used in anger, because of the possibility of accidents (which could release deadly plutonium) and terrorist attack. "The bombs at Lakenheath make the base and the area a prime target," said Ms. Willis "The U.S.and British authorities maintain secrecy about the nuclear bombs at Lakenheath, and many of the public have no idea that they are there."
 
The U.S. has declared its intention to use nuclear weapons against attacks by non-nuclear states using conventional, biological or chemical weapons, and the list of target states includes Syria. "It was the crisis caused by the Israeli bombing of Syria on October 5th which was the "final prompt" for our action," said Ms. Cooke. "We feared that the U.S. could deploy Lakenheath nuclear bombs against Syria if she retaliated against the Israeli attack."
 
After the conclusion of the trial, the defendants declared their readiness to continue campaigning against nuclear weapons at Lakenheath, and headed straight to the base to gather more information.