Stonehenge protester: I'm not a scary person

A 74-YEAR-OLD Just Stop Oil supporter accused of spraying Stonehenge with orange powder told a court he does not think he comes across as a “dangerous or threatening person”.

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Rajan Naidu, from Birmingham, and Oxford University student Niamh Lynch, 22, are accused of using two fire extinguishers filled with cornflour, talc and an orange dye to spray the monument on June 19 last year.

Their trial at Salisbury Crown Court was told the pair, together with Luke Watson, 36, targeted Stonehenge as part of an ongoing fossil fuel protest by the Just Stop Oil group.

The three defendants each deny charges of damaging an ancient protected monument and causing a public nuisance.

Yesterday, Naidu began giving evidence during which he said the group had “no intention to do anything reckless or harmful in any sense" to the “sacred” monument which was “one of the wonders of the world”.