Two Just Stop oil activists have been jailed after throwing soup over a Vincent van Gogh painting.
Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, have been jailed at Southwark Crown Court for two years and 20 months respectively after being convicted of criminal damage when they threw tomato soup over the the legendary Sunflowers painting.Judge Christopher Hehir branded the pair "idiotic" as he sentenced them.In the shocking footage of the scene, staff at London's National Gallery rushed to remove the painting, which was not damaged in the incident.
"It is not just myself being sentenced today, or my co-defendants, but the foundations of democracy itself." Judge Hehir said it was "offensive" for Plummer to portray herself as a political prisoner "when you think of the people in dungeons around the world. "We don't have political prisoners in this country," he added.The pair were heard to have initially dressed as normal visitors and waited for a space to appear around Van Gogh’s painting.
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