More than 700 lawyers, celebrities and artists have called for an urgent meeting with the attorney-general to address the “injustice” of the historic sentences handed to five environmental activists for peaceful protest.
Roger Hallam, 58, was last week jailed for five years for co-ordinating the protest that disrupted the M25 in London over four days in 2022, during which 45 protesters climbed gantries on the motorway, forcing police to stop traffic. Daniel Shaw, 38, Lucia Whittaker de Abreu, 35, Louise Lancaster, 58, and Cressida Gethin, 22, were each given four years after being found guilty along with Hallam of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.
