Six environmental protesters were convicted after they were denied the ability to put forward a “reasonable defense” despite the facts released in the same show in the same demonstration.
After an eight-day trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, only six oil activists (JSO) stopped found guilty of public huisancewhich carries a maximum 10-year sentence, for climbing the gantries on the M25 in 2022 to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects. They will be planted in the next month.
The manner of their case has drawn comparisons with three other JSO activists who participated in the same demonstration at the orbital operation in London.
Found them not guilty of public huisance After the judgment of the Colerner Crown Court they were allowed to defend the reasonable inspection and were allowed by the prosecutors of the prosecutors and defense lawyers and presented to the jury. The verdicts in both cases are less than three weeks away.
Adelheid Russenberger, a PhD student from London, who was among those sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in the month, how the judges weighed the case.
“One previous prosecution happily accepted some agreed-upon facts about climate and the other did not.”
The introduction of the public nuisance law under the controversial police, crime, sentencing and court act (PCSCA) has been widely criticized as an attack on the right to protest.
SECTION 78 of the Act included a defense of reasonable reasoning, but Judge Perrins, sitting in Southwark, refused to represent the defense to the jury.
He ruled: “The subjective belief of each defendant that their conduct is justified as an act of protest cannot afford their terms of action for their subsequent actions.” He said any protesters convicted of public nuisance would be detained.
Raj Chada, head of criminal defense at Hodge, Jones and Allen, who represented Andrew Dames in Southwark and Isabel Rocks and the Groilford courts wrongly, in my view, not [always] Allowing reasonable reasoning to apply and failing to adequately protect your right to free speech. “
Russenberger, Dames and Co-Defendants Cosmo Cosmo Cattell, Jane Toil, Clara O’Callaghan and Michael Dunk, who pleaded not guilty at Colern of Guildford Crown Court, were joined the following day.
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Mel Carrington, a JSO spokesman, said: “[Judges who] Victims are denied their right to determine whether our actions are justified to protect the public. They are acting anti-democratic and immoral. “
Ruth Ehrlich, Head of Policy and Campaign for the Defense of Human Right Regalo, “the government must review the evidence of the development of the evidence.”
A spokesman for judges in England and Wales said:
The crown prosecution service has been approached for comment.
In March, JSO announced a campaign of civil resistance, demanding an end to new oil and gas as government policy.