FIVE Bournemouth residents visited their local police station to request that the police carry out a criminal investigation for crimes against humanity and genocide carried out by three Prime Ministers.

Members of Climate Genocide Act Now filed the requests to Dorset Police on Wednesday November 20 to look into serving Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Prime Ministers Theresa May and David Cameron.

This action was part of a coordinated action in London and elsewhere in England and Wales.

Jon Fuller, Chair of Climate Genocide Act Now said: “Despite knowing that hundreds of thousands of people are now dying every year due to climate breakdown, and despite knowing of the risk that billions of people could be killed in the future, three Prime Ministers have kept the UK on a path of unnecessarily high greenhouse gas emissions and have even sought to increase emissions from some sectors.

“Their policies will devastate the lives of the young and will increase the number killed every year from the hundreds of thousands to the millions.”

Climate Genocide Act Now was formed shortly after the Paris COP21 conference in December 2015. The intention of the group was to find a way to prosecute those key figures who are primarily responsible for committing crimes against humanity and genocide.

However recent events associated with the Extinction Rebellion Section 14 Public Order Act trials have indicated that an attempt should be made to prosecute under the International Criminal Court Act 2001.

Jon added: “A range of government policies will inflict so much harm upon the young, and the poorest, most vulnerable nations of the world, that they are technically ‘crimes against humanity’.

“The decision to pursue policies, that are guaranteed to result in the complete annihilation of the low-lying island states, is an act of ‘genocide’.

“We are today calling upon the police to investigate these crimes, charge the accused and pass the case to the CPS to prosecute. We look to the police to now meet their responsibilities and protect British citizens from those who would kill them.”

The group deliver documents which refers to the relevant legislation and provides the evidence of the two crimes to Dorset Police and asked for the matter be investigated.

The date of the action - November 20 - is significant because it is the anniversary of the commencement of the Nuremberg trials, the prosecution of key figures associated with the greatest act of genocide in history during WWII.