Surrey pair among Just Stop Oil protesters sentenced over airport disruption

TWO men from Surrey were among a group of Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters sentenced after they were convicted for their plan to cause “unprecedented disruption” at Heathrow Airport.

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Activists, said to be participating as part of a wider international campaign, were found with angle grinders and glue and arrested at the airport on Wednesday, July 24 last year.

The nine activists appearing at Isleworth Crown Court on Friday, May 16 were sentenced for conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

The defendants had either already served the time they were sentenced to or were handed suspended sentences.

Judge Hannah Duncan said: “No breach of the perimeter fence occurred. No disruption at all occurred. No actual harm was caused.”

The court heard that seven individuals in two separate groups were stopped by police close to the perimeter fence at Heathrow Airport at around 9am on the day of the incident.