There is disturbing evidence of the justice system’s risibly lenient approach to the eco-protesters bringing chaos to our daily lives. Here, SAM MERRIMAN and SABRINA MILLER analyse several high profile cases.
Phoebe Plummer, 21: Attended £45,000-a-year St Mary’s School, Ascot. Parents live in a £4 million home in Chelsea.
Multiple arrests for blocking roads. Most notable for throwing tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at London’s National Gallery in October 2022.
Charged with criminal damage (trial due July next year) and bailed on condition does not enter any galleries or museums.
Phoebe Plummer, 21: Attended £45,000-a-year St Mary’s School, Ascot. Parents live in a £4 million home in Chelsea
Daniel Knorr, 21: Oxford University biochemistry student. Parents live in a £6 million house in North London. Father is managing partner of a private equity company handling £4.5 billion.
April 2023: Arrested for jumping the barrier at a Dippy the Diplodocus dinosaur expedition. Trial set for October. June: Arrested for invading the Ashes Test at Lord’s. Trial set for next month.
Daniel Knorr, 21 : Oxford University biochemistry student. Parents live in a £6 million house in North London
Louis McKechnie, 22: Studying a masters degree in engineering at Bournemouth University. Boasts that he has been arrested 17 times.
Famously McKechnie disrupted an Everton v Newcastle match at Goodison Park in March last year by tying his neck to the goalpost. Jailed for six weeks, fined £50 and subjected to a three-year football banning order.
Other offences: April 2022, blocked the UK’s largest oil terminal in Essex. Fined £200 with £154 costs.
June 2022: Glued himself to a Van Gogh painting in London. Jailed for three weeks.
July 2022: Arrested for storming the British Grand Prix. Found guilty of public nuisance, given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
Louis McKechnie, 22 : Studying a masters degree in engineering at Bournemouth University. Boasts that he has been arrested 17 times
Nathan McGovern, 24: Completed a master’s degree in religion at King’s College London. Studied at the University of St Andrews and graduated with a 2:1 in Scottish MA Philosophy and Theological Studies.
Claims to have been arrested 14 times. Most recently arrested in April 2023 at the Scottish Grand National in Ayr for attempting to disrupt the race. Trial date set for early September.
Nathan McGovern, 24 : Completed a master’s degree in religion at King’s College London. Studied at the University of St Andrews and graduated with a 2:1 in Scottish MA Philosophy and Theological Studies
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