Four anti-fracking activists face prison over protest

Men who stopped lorries to become first campaigners to be jailed for a protest in UK since 1932

Four anti-fracking activists face being the first environmental campaigners to be jailed for a protest in the UK since 1932.

Simon Roscoe Blevins, 26, Richard Loizou, 31 and Richard Roberts, 36, were told by a judge to expect custodial sentences after being convicted of causing a public nuisance by a jury at Preston crown court in August. Another defendant, Julian Brock, 47, pleaded guilty so did not face trial.