Eco menace's soft sentence is overturned

PROSECUTORS have overturned an “unduly lenient” sentence given to an eco-warrior who previously damaged the Stone of Destiny.

- By James Mulholland

Catriona Roberts, 22, was admonished in March for gluing herself to a door in a protest at a UK Government building in Edinburgh.

She was told she would not face any further penalty other than a criminal record following proceedings at the city’s sheriff court.

She was convicted of breach of the peace and malicious mischief for the protest at the Queen Elizabeth House on the capital’s Sibbald Walk

Activists sprayed red paint on the building and scaled the facade of the facility in a pro-Palestinian protest.

They then removed the Union Flag from the roof and replaced it with a Palestinian one.