A district court judge vows 'to do what I can to reduce my own impact on the planet' after hearing Insulate Britain protesters defending themselves.
The protesters had claimed they resorted to"non-violent protest" after exhausting all other means of highlighting their cause.
The judge said the protesters had"no doubt" been acting in a way they believed was"morally right" but that they had still committed a criminal offence. London-based Xavier Gonzalez-Trimmer, 21, who had previous convictions for similar protest-related offences, was fined £266. May Adams, 68, of Greenwich, was fined £250, as the judge found her refusal to move out of the path of an ambulance a"serious" aggravating factor.Five others - Tim Speers, Daniell Thomas, Peter Morgan, Louise Lancaster and Iain Webb - did not attend court and were convicted of wilful obstruction after a trial was held in their absence.
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