JSO trio who invaded Ashes Test and threw down orange paint deny trespassing

Three Just Stop Oil protesters who disrupted an Ashes Test at Lord’s Cricket Ground by throwing orange powder on the pitch have denied aggravated trespass.

Jacob Bourne, 27, Judit Murray, 69, and Daniel Knorr, 21, stopped play through the second Test between England and Australia on 28 June.

They all pleaded not responsible at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to aggravated trespass having been accused of obstructing or disrupting an individual engaged in a lawful exercise.

According to the fees, having allegedly trespassed on the venue, the trio entered a “redistricted pitch area” and interrupted the match “by throwing orange powder on the pitch”. The group are disputing the trespassing allegations and say they wish to hear proof the property is definitely personal, Westminister Magistrates’ Court heard.

Hussain Hassan, defending, stated the trio assume it’s potential for an individual to enter the sector and not using a match being disrupted.

Mr Hassan additionally challenged prosecutors to show the match was lawful.

Murray, of Plough Road, West Ewell, Surrey, Knorr, of Green Street, Oxford, and Bourne, of Moorland Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, have been granted bail and can face trial on the City of London Magistrates’ Court on September 28.

Their bail situation is to not enter the grounds of a sporting occasion.

Also in courtroom was JSO local weather activist Rachel Mann, 64, who was banned from London for 12 months after pleading responsible to inflicting prison harm to the Bank of England in a separate incident on Halloween final yr.

Mann, who triggered £6,890 value of injury by spraying the phrases “Just Stop Oil” in orange paint on the constructing’s wall, was additionally made to pay £1,000 in compensation and a £114 authorized payment.

She advised the courtroom: “I didn’t do what I did lightly, I did it because I was desperate, and I’m still desperate now.”

Austen Espeut, 75, of Chippenham in Wiltshire, denied inflicting £5,543.80 of prison harm in relation to the identical incident.

He will stand trial at Inner London Crown Court on August 29.

JSO is looking for an finish to all new coal, oil and fuel initiatives within the UK.