clarebeeThe absolute irony of a judge claiming climate protestors deserve a 4/5-yr jail sentence for planning “the biggest disruption in British modern history”.
Climate change: hold my beer.
Ehproque has moved@clarebee one would thing the biggest disruption in modern history happened when thousands were dying every week and we could barely leave home for months but hey
Patrick@clarebee some of us remember the lorry drivers and farmers blockading the refineries in 2000.
And the 3 day week of 1974 where TV shut down at 22:30 to conserve energy.
This idiot seems to think that history started last Monday.
How long did David Handley get? Or Mick McGahey?
Adrian Cockcroft@clarebee A truck hit a footbridge across the M25 back in 1999 and it fell across both lanes at 8am when I was trying to get to Heathrow. Closed the road for a day both ways. That sounds like a bigger disruption to me. (I got a flight the next day).
helplessduck
Jonas Boström@clarebee I thought it was Nigel Farage and friends that planned “the biggest disruption in British modern history”…
Joakim Fors@clarebee Crowdstrike wants in on the action of holding beers too.
robcorneliusThe sentence was bought and paid for by the oil companies.
Lefty lawyer@clarebee punitive sentence regime, simply to deter others from exercising rights, wholly disproportionate to the conduct in question. I represented Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, one of those sentenced to four years on this occasion, and 22 other Just Stop Oil protesters when they were committed to prison for peacefully breaching an injunction in the midlands.
@clarebee if you haven’t read it, this was the damning statement of the UN Special Rapporteur, Michael Forst, at the conclusion of the trial. https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/ACSR_C_2024_26_UK_SR_EnvDefenders_public_statement_18.07.2024.pdf