Roger Hallam, founder of the Just Stop Oil protest group was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment together with four other defendants who each received four-year jail terms.
In November 2022 forty-five Just Stop Oil protesters climbed gantries on the M25 motorway in, forcing police to stop the traffic on parts of the motorway for four days in an attempt to cause gridlock across southern England.
Judge Christopher Hehir said Roger Hallam, 58, Daniel Shaw, 38, Louise Lancaster, 58, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Cressida Gethin, 22, had “crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic”.
At Southwark Crown Court, Hallam was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment while the other defendants each received four-year jail terms.
It seems Roger Hallam was somewhat unrepentant, having caused chaos and pollution, endangering lives by stopping ambulances from getting through and generally being a right pain in the arse by stopping vast numbers of the general public from going about their lawful business.
He made a statement in court where he whinged on for some considerable time before the Judge told him to stop, as he was wasting his time.
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It would be brilliant to get the costs back but as the economic cost was apparently £765,000 and the Police costs were £1.1 million, I don’t think there’s much hope of that.
I was thinking, just leave them up there and ignore them until they either get bored or fall off, the down side of the latter is they may damage someone’s car when they land. So, perhaps your hose idea is the best solution, it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s relatively cheap, what’s not to like?
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It would be good if they had to pay the costs of the police operation too!
It would be brilliant to get the costs back but as the economic cost was apparently £765,000 and the Police costs were £1.1 million, I don’t think there’s much hope of that.
It would be much cheaper to hose them down, and cost can be offset against Fire Service training!
I was thinking, just leave them up there and ignore them until they either get bored or fall off, the down side of the latter is they may damage someone’s car when they land. So, perhaps your hose idea is the best solution, it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s relatively cheap, what’s not to like?