TWO Just Stop Oil activists who brought the M25 to a standstill walked free from court yesterday.
Phoebe Plummer, 23, and David Mann, 51, were among 45 demonstrators who scaled gantries on the motorway.
Pheobe Plummer, of Lambeth, South London, told the judge: ‘whatever sentence you give me today will not deter me’Rex
Jam PressMann, of Ipswich, was given an 18-month community order, including 100 hours of service[/caption]
Mourners missed funerals and students failed to get to exams in time in November 2022. Plummer was convicted by a jury of conspiring to disrupt the M25 while Mann admitted the offence.
Judge Justin Cole called them “arrogant” for thinking they were “cleverer” than those whose lives they disrupted.
He said at Southwark crown court: “Neither of you played an organisational role but you were motivated by a desire to cause large-scale disruption.”
Mann was in breach of a conditional discharge due to a previous protest while Plummer was on bail for another matter.
The M25 protest also came a month after she threw soup over a Van Gogh painting in London, for which she got two years’ jail.
Plummer, of Lambeth, South London, told the judge: “Whatever sentence you give me today will not deter me.”
She was handed a suspended two-year jail term, with 150 hours of community service. Plummer, who is on benefits, must also pay £500 in costs, at £30 a month.
Mann, of Ipswich, was given an 18-month community order, including 100 hours of service.
He must also pay £200 costs at £20 a month. Last year he tried to raise cash to help pay all the fines he has racked up.
SWNSPlummer threw soup over a Van Gogh painting in London, for which she got two years’ jail[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
