Five Just Stop Oil protesters, including one of its co-founders, have been jailed - with one sentenced to five years and the others to four.
They were all found guilty of conspiring to organise protests blocking the M25 motorway for four successive days in November 2022. Roger Hallam, 58, Daniel Shaw, 38, Louise Lancaster, 58, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Cressida Gethin, 22, agreed to cause disruption to traffic by having protesters climb onto gantries over the motorway.
A police officer suffered concussion and bruising after he was knocked off his motorbike in traffic caused by one of the protests on 9 November 2022, prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward KC said at the sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court. Judge Christopher Hehir told the defendants: 'The plain fact is that each of you some time ago has crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. 'You have appointed yourselves as sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change.
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