This has been a long time coming.

Five Just Stop Oil protesters, including one of its co-founders, have been jailed for conspiring to organise protests that blocked the M25 motorway.

Roger Hallam, 58, Daniel Shaw, 38, Louise Lancaster, 58, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Cressida Gethin, 22, agreed to cause disruption to traffic by having protesters climb onto gantries over the motorway for four successive days in November 2022.

Hallam was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment while the other four defendants were each handed four years’ imprisonment.

A jury decided the Just Stop Oil cultists were guilty last week and their actions resulted in thousands of hours of commuter delays and was done in hopes of stopping traffic across southern England. Judge Christopher Hehir’s remarks when handing down the sentences were excellent:

“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic…And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens“

Hopefully the legal consequences these 5 misfits face will deter any other groups from conducting a similar effort.

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