Two Just Stop Oil activists who made mourners miss funerals by bringing M25 to standstill walk free from court

TWO Just Stop Oil activists who brought the M25 to a standstill walked free from court yesterday.

23, and David Mann, 51, were among 45 demonstrators who scaled gantries on the motorway.

Pheobe Plummer, of Lambeth, South London, told the judge: ‘whatever sentence you give me today will not deter me’Mann, of Ipswich, was given an 18-month community order, including 100 hours of service

Mourners missed funerals and students failed to get to exams in time in November 2022. Plummer was convicted by a jury of while Mann admitted the offence.

Judge Justin Cole called them “arrogant”;; for thinking they were “cleverer”;; than those whose lives they disrupted.

He said at Southwark crown court: “Neither of you played an organisational role but you were motivated by a desire to cause large-scale disruption.”;;

Mann was in breach of a conditional discharge due to a previous protest while Plummer was on bail for another matter.

The M25 protest also came a month after she threw soup over a Van Gogh painting in , for which she got two years’ jail.

, of Lambeth, South London, told the judge: “Whatever sentence you give me today will not deter me.”;;

She was handed a suspended two-year jail term, with 150 hours of community service. Plummer, who is on , must also pay £500 in costs, at £30 a month.

Mann, of Ipswich, was given an 18-month community order, including 100 hours of service.

He must also pay £200 costs at £20 a month. Last year he tried to raise cash to help pay all the fines he has racked up.      

Plummer threw soup over a Van Gogh painting in London, for which she got two years’ jail