Five Insulate Britain members jailed for defying M25 protest injunctions
by Damien Gayle from Environment | The Guardian on (#5VQ74)
Court imposes custodial sentences of between 24 and 32 days and hands 11 others suspended sentences
An activist from Insulate Britain hung a banner proclaiming insulate or die" at the high court in London on Wednesday as five members of the group were sentenced to jail.
Arne Springorum displayed the banner as El Litten, 35, Theresa Norton, 63, Steve Pritchard, 62, and Dr Diana Warner, 62, were given custodial sentences of between 24 and 32 days. Ben Taylor, 27, who was due to be released this month from a six-month jail sentence imposed in November, was sentenced to another 32 days. Eleven more protesters received suspended sentences.
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