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Writing in the Sun on Sunday, the Home Secretary said she would 'not be delivering on my promise to the law-abiding majority' if she did not crack down on the protesters.
Protesters from Extinction Rebellion have been cleared of trespassing at a printing press last year when the group prevented the distribution of half a million newspapers. Demonstrators blocked the entrance of News-UK owned Newsprinters in Knowsley, Merseyside, with a blue box van and a yellow boat on a trailer last September. Newspapers affected included the Daily Mail, The Times, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph. The protests last year prevented the distribution of half a million newspapers, including the Daily Mail, The Sun, The Times and The Daily Telegraph Extinction Rebellion protesters on ...
Extinction Rebellion protestor Katerina Hasapopoulous outside Southwark Crown Court after she was handed a conditional discharge for causing criminal damage to Shell's London headquarters in April 2019 // PA An Extinction Rebellion protester who admitted causing criminal damage to Shell’s London HQ was handed a conditional discharge days after her co-defendants were cleared by a jury against the judge’s directions. Katerina Hasapopoulous, 43, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday after earlier pleading guilty to criminal damage and having an article with intent to cause cr...
By Press Association 2021 Katerina Hasapopoulous An Extinction Rebellion protester who admitted causing criminal damage to Shell’s London headquarters has been handed a conditional discharge days after her co-defendants were cleared against the judge’s directions. Katerina Hasapopoulous, 43, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday after earlier pleading guilty to criminal damage and having an article with intent to cause criminal damage. Prosecutor Diana Wilson said the mother-of-four, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, had glue...
© Getty Graffiti was left on Shell's London headquarters in April 2019Six Extinction Rebellion protesters have been cleared of causing criminal damage, despite a jury being told by the judge there was no defence in law for their actions. Activists targeted Shell's London HQ, claiming the oil firm was directly contributing to climate change. It was part of wider demonstrations across the capital on 15 April 2019. Judge Gregory Perrins said that even if their actions were "morally justified", that did not provide a lawful excuse. Comment: Were their actions even morally justified? Because it's...