Don’t put climate activists on trial, CPS urged

Questions raised over purpose of prosecuting peaceful protestors after activists are found guilty of calling climate-change sceptics liars'

Prosecutors are under growing pressure to drop cases against environmental protestors after activists were found guilty of calling the UK's most prominent climate-change sceptics liars".

Three campaigners were found guilty of criminal damage after spraying graffiti on the Westminster office of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The organisation, which was once chaired by the former chancellor Nigel Lawson, has been criticised by the Charity Commission for breaking rules on impartiality, with critics accusing it of being the UK's most prominent source of climate-change scepticism.