Eco-outrage ringleader has prison sentence cut

SIX climate change activists including Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam have had their jail terms slashed by the Court of Appeal.

- By Paul Jeeves Crime Editor

Hallam and 15 other protesters were jailed last year for their roles in four demonstrations between August and November 2022. They included climbing on gantries over the M25 and throwing soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting.

Their lawyers claimed the sentences passed down on them were “manifestly excessive”.

During yesterday’s hearing around two dozen JSO supporters stood up in court and turned their backs on the judges while wearing white T-shirts with the words “Corruption in Court”.