Climate protesters told to pay National Gallery £1,000 for damaging painting
by Damien Gayle from on (#66JEP)
Just Stop Oil's Hannah Hunt and Eden Lazarus found guilty after glueing themselves to Constable's The Hay Wain
Two climate protesters have been ordered to compensate the National Gallery after they were found guilty of causing more than 1,000 of damage to the Hay Wain, probably John Constable's best-known painting.
In July Just Stop Oil supporters Hannah Hunt, 23, and Eden Lazarus, 22, taped printed posters of a dystopian reimagining of the landscape over its canvas, before glueing their hands to its gilt frame.
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