Eco-Activists Jailed for M25 Shutdown Protest

Five Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters have been jailed for their involvement in protests on the M25 which forced police to shut the motorway, causing widespread traffic. On Nov. 9, 2022, drivers “suffered hours of delay” when activists climbed the gantries of the motorway during a protest which Judge Shane Collery, KC, said was done to “create mass disruption so Just Stop Oil would benefit from the media interest it would create.” Sentencing five of the six defendants to between one year and eight months and two years in prison, Collery said at Basildon Crown Court on Thursday, “Your actions were disproportionate to your aims.”...