Thame Students Reveal Loopholes In Arms Trade

A Television programme going out on Monday evening, will show how students from Lord Williams’ school in Thame were able to find loopholes in the Arms Trade laws and order alms equipment.
The case was highlighted in the national press today and next Monday’s ‘Despatches’ prgramme will feature pupils and staff from Lord Williams’ school.

Although the Thame children got quotes for, but did not go ahead with the deals they arranged for guns and grenade launchers, children from a school in Portloaise, near Dublin, succeeded in buying electric shock batons from Korea and leg irons from South Africa.

The TV prgramme, After School Arms Club, presented by Mark Thomas, will be broadcast on Channel 4 next Monday (April 3).
“It should not be legal, and yet we’ve proved that children, who by law are not allowed to drink alcohol, can broker arms from countries along a trade route from Poland to China and Israel to South Africa.
“Many of these arms are used against or tragically, even by children,” said 16 year-ld Maddy Fry, a pupil at Lord Williams’s school.