Gail Bradbrook, 51, was found guilty by a jury of breaking a window in protest at HS2 at the Department for Transport in October 2019.
The mother-of-two, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, appeared at Isleworth Crown Court, west London, on Monday where a judge handed her a 15-month prison sentence suspended for 15 months, 150 hours of unpaid work and a year-long supervision order, a court worker told the PA news agency.
Congratulations to Gail Bradbrook on walking free from court today.#BetterBrokenWindowsThanBrokenPromises
Press release: https://t.co/dJ907LAgiY
Gail’s 75-page dossier of evidence the jury were prohibited from hearing: https://t.co/EpDYekKahF pic.twitter.com/z9oWoqNRRr
— XR Money Rebellion 🌍🌱🏳️⚧️ (@money_rebellion) December 18, 2023
Bradbrook, who co-founded the environmental campaign group in 2018 with her ex-partner Simon Bramwell and several others, was joined outside court after the hearing by a group of supporters which included Game Of Thrones actor Jerome Flynn, while others were dressed as suffragettes.
In a statement after the hearing, released by XR, Bradbrook reportedly said the courts were “complicit in marching us off a climate cliff” while those responsible for “destroying (Earth’s) life-support systems are not being held accountable”.
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