Petrol protester is attached to Van Gogh’s oils

Two ‘Just Stop Oil’ protesters who glued themselves to a Van Gogh painting at a London art gallery have denied causing criminal damage. Emily Brocklebank, 23, and Louis McKechnie, 21, adhered themselves to the frame of ‘Peach Trees In Blossom’ at the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London on 30 June 2022. Both Brocklebank, of East View, Leeds, and McKechnie, of Weymouth, Dorset, deny the charge. ‘They don’t dispute their presence at the gallery but they dispute involvement,’ said prosecutor Frances…