Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti Seven people charged with vandalising Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland have been accused of malicious damage “having a terrorist connection”. The clubhouse at the five-star Trump Turnberry hotel and resort on the west coast of Scotland was graffitied on 8 March last year and the course was dug up and painted with the words “Gaza is not 4 sale”. Kieran Robson, 35, Uzma Bashir, 56, Ricky Southall, 34, Autumn Taylor Ward, 22, Rebecca Sian Davies, 29, John Moxley, 58, and Dylan Chiaramello, 24, have all been charged in relation to the action and are due to appear in court on 31 August. It adds that it will be proved “that the aforesaid offence was aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection”. Turnberry’s famous Ailsa golf course has staged the Open four times.
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Tee times for non-residents are listed at up to £1,000 a head at the Ayrshire resort, which Trump added his name to after buying it from a Dubai-based group in 2014 for an undisclosed sum.