Roger Hallam Receives Five Year Sentence, other Just Stop Oil Co-Conspirators Receive Four Years – Watts Up With That?

Five Just Stop Oil protesters, including one of its co-founders, have been jailed for conspiring to organise protests that blocked the M25 motorway.

Roger Hallam, an environmental activist who was one of the founding members of the group, agreed to causing disruption to traffic by having protesters climb onto gantries over the motorway for four successive days in November 2022.

The 58-year-old was joined by Daniel Shaw, 38, Louise Lancaster, 58, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Cressida Gethin, 22, as they were all sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday.

Hallam was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment while the remaining four defendants were each handed four years’ imprisonment. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13648263/Just-Stop-Oil-founder-Roger-Hallam-jailed-five-years-four-activists-four-years-plots-block-M25-motorway-saw-50-000-hours-vehicle-delay.html

Apparently, a journalist from the Sun recorded one of their planning sessions and gave it to the police.

Judge Christopher Hehir said the Zoom call showed ‘how intricately planned the disruption was and the sophistication involved’, and was ‘compelling evidence’ of the existence of a conspiracy.

The caterwauling on the Just Stop Oil account on X is a fun read.

Roger Hallam gives a harrowing hilarious account of the proceedings.

H/T strativarius, fraizer, j-boles