A judge has cleared four climate change protesters who blocked access to Britain’s busiest motorway during a protest in 2021 after ruling that a conviction on a charge of wilful obstruction of the highway would not be “proportionate.”
Police arrested 38 activists from the campaign group Insulate Britain after junctions 9 and 10 of the M25 were obstructed for 13 minutes from 7.57 a.m. on Sept. 21, 2021.
But on Wednesday, District Judge Amanda Kelly, sitting at Horsham Magistrates’ Court in West Sussex, ordered Venetia Carter, Diana Warner, Stephen Gower, and Susan Hagley to be found not guilty of wilful obstruction of the highway contrary to the Highways Act 1980….