Ignore the law, pay the price for your actions, regardless of opinions and climate theories. As UK prisons are already full they won’t be locked up for very long. The world uses about 100 million barrels of oil a day for many purposes, including lubrication of wind turbines.
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Five environmental activists who organised protests that brought part of the M25 to a standstill over four days have been jailed, reports BBC News.
Forty-five Just Stop Oil protesters climbed gantries on the motorway in November 2022, forcing police to stop the traffic, in an attempt to cause gridlock across southern England.
Judge Christopher Hehir said Roger Hallam, 58, Daniel Shaw, 38, Louise Lancaster, 58, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Cressida Gethin, 22, had “crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic”.
At Southwark Crown Court, Hallam was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment while the other defendants each received four-year jail terms.
‘Intricate planning’
The sentences are the longest since the introduction by the last government of the new law of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance, in a bid to clamp down on disruptive protests.
The court heard the intention was to block most of the M25, preventing traffic from other roads from joining the motorway.
The action resulted in chaos on the M25 over four successive days, resulting in nearly 51,000 hours of driver delays, the court heard.
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A barrister for Hallam said the 58-year-old had since rejected direct action campaigning due to its limitations and changed his approach to more conventional political campaigning.
The judge responded that the campaigner had “turned the trial into a piece of direct action protest.”
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