A 68-year-old woman from west Wales
is facing prison after telling a court she would not pay for her
television licence as part of a campaign to try to force broadcasting
powers to be devolved from London to Cardiff.
Eiris Llywelyn, from the village of Ffostrasol in Ceredigion, appeared in court in Aberystwyth, where she was ordered to pay costs of £220. But she immediately said she would still not pay either the licence fee or the costs, a move that could lead to her being imprisoned.
Llywelyn spent time on remand in the 1970s during the campaign that preceded the creation of the Welsh-language broadcaster S4C in 1982 and, asked by the Guardian if she was prepared to go to jail now, she said: “I am aware of the implications of breaking the law in the name of our language and culture.”
Eiris Llywelyn, from the village of Ffostrasol in Ceredigion, appeared in court in Aberystwyth, where she was ordered to pay costs of £220. But she immediately said she would still not pay either the licence fee or the costs, a move that could lead to her being imprisoned.
Llywelyn spent time on remand in the 1970s during the campaign that preceded the creation of the Welsh-language broadcaster S4C in 1982 and, asked by the Guardian if she was prepared to go to jail now, she said: “I am aware of the implications of breaking the law in the name of our language and culture.”
