GANDALF was an

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('' Green Anarchist'' and '' ALF'') for the 1997 trial in the UK of the editors of ''Green Anarchist'' magazine, as well as two prominent British supporters of the

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and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group (ALF SG), on charges of conspiracy to incite criminal damage. Beginning in 1995, the Hampshire police under "Operation Washington" began a series of at least 56 raids, which resulted in the August–November 1997 trial in Portsmouth of ''Green Anarchist'' editors Steven Booth, Saxon Burchnall-Wood, Noel Molland, and Paul Rogers, as well as the ALF UK press officer

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and ALF SG newsletter editor Simon Russell. The defendants organized the GANDALF defence campaign. The editors of ''Green Anarchist''—Molland, Burchnall-Wood and Booth—were sentenced to three years in jail for conspiracy to incite criminal damage. After four and a half months, all three were released pending an appeal, and their convictions were later overturned.''The Journalist'', National Union of Journalists, 1997, p. 73.

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