Let off for ‘privileged’ XR protestor

A self-professed ‘privileged, white middle class woman’ who claimed she was exercising her human rights to protest about climate change has been handed a conditional discharge. Vanessa ‘Nessie’ Stevenson, 60, was among thousands of Extinction Rebellion activists who descended on Parliament Square last September, urging the government to prepare for a ‘climate crisis’. She was charged with failing to comply with a condition imposed by Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe restricting the location and size of the protests. Ms…