Post by Red Rackham on Jul 20, 2024 19:44:10 GMT
Surprised someone hasn't already mentioned this tbh. Like many people I openly laughed out loud when I read this story, great result.
Five Just Stop Oil protesters, including one of its co-founders, have been handed record jail terms over protests that blocked the M25 motorway.
Roger Hallam, 58, Daniel Shaw, 38, Louise Lancaster, 58, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Cressida Gethin, 22, agreed to cause disruption to traffic by having protesters climb onto gantries over the motorway for four successive days in November 2022.
JSO co-founder Hallam was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment while the other four defendants were each handed four years’ imprisonment.
The sentences, thought to be the longest sentences ever given for peaceful protest, exceed those handed to fellow Just Stop Oil protesters Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker, who scaled the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge on the Dartford Crossing in 2022.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/just-stop-oil-jailed-m25-environmental-protest-b2582111.html
To any lefties who insist prison should be a deterrent rather than a punishment, do you think five years is deterrent enough?...
Five Just Stop Oil protesters, including one of its co-founders, have been handed record jail terms over protests that blocked the M25 motorway.
Roger Hallam, 58, Daniel Shaw, 38, Louise Lancaster, 58, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Cressida Gethin, 22, agreed to cause disruption to traffic by having protesters climb onto gantries over the motorway for four successive days in November 2022.
JSO co-founder Hallam was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment while the other four defendants were each handed four years’ imprisonment.
The sentences, thought to be the longest sentences ever given for peaceful protest, exceed those handed to fellow Just Stop Oil protesters Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker, who scaled the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge on the Dartford Crossing in 2022.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/just-stop-oil-jailed-m25-environmental-protest-b2582111.html
To any lefties who insist prison should be a deterrent rather than a punishment, do you think five years is deterrent enough?...
