'JSO co-founder Hallam was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment while the other four defendants were each handed four years’ imprisonment.'
“JSO co-founder Hallam was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment while the other four defendants were each handed four years’ imprisonment.”I suspect the attack on Stonehenge, which is near and dear to the heart of many Brits, may have been one stunt too many. The tide of justice is now turning, and sweeping up one of the heads of the organization andFive Just Stop Oil protesters, including one of its co-founders, have been handed record jail terms over protests that blocked the M25 motorway.
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, when they were jailed at Southend Crown Court last April.
Judge Christopher Hehir said there had been “an unprecedented level of deliberate disruption” and suggested Hallam, who he said was arrested three times, tried to “turn the trial into a piece of direct action protest”. Hehir said that “this was a conspiracy to cause extreme and disproportionate disruption”, adding: “Each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic.I feel very bad for the 22-year-old, who is facing jail time as the real and serious consequence of being brainwashed by this cult and its eco-guru.
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