Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, an Anglican priest from Bristol, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired biology teacher from Swansea, carried out the Just Stop Oil protest on Friday morning.
A pair of elderly protestors brazenly hammered the glass protecting the Magna Carta in an attempt to smash it, before gluing themselves to the display as part of a Just Stop Oil protest.
Video footage of the incident shows the pair attempting to crack the display showing the Magna Carta with a hammer and chiselThe two activists then appear to glue themselves to the display as part of their Just Stop Oil protest In October 2022 she was among 16 people detained by cops for causing gridlock as eco protesters sat in the middle of the road and displayed banners in the capital.
Rev. Parfitt was also acquitted for climbing on top of a train at Shadwell DLR tube station and refusing to move until officers arrived in October 2019. As the pensioner was being led, arm-in-arm with a police officer to a waiting van, she said: 'I am doing this because we are on the brink of the greatest catastrophe that human beings have ever known, and the Government and the public have to wake up to this.
'Officers arrested two people on suspicion of criminal damage, both of which are currently in custody.In a statement appearing on the Just Stop Oil website this morning, protestor Judy Bruce said: 'This week 400 respected scientists - contributors to IPCC reports - are saying we are 'woefully unprepared' for what's coming: 2.5 or more degrees of heating above pre industrial levels.
Rev. Parfitt was also arrested for sitting in her camp chair outside the MoD's Abbey Wood site near Bristol and was found guilty of obstruction of a highway at Bristol Magistrates' Court in 2021.
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