Climate change soup chuckers Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland face jail after jury rejects ‘moral’ defence

Two eco-zealots who risked causing serious damage to Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ when they flung tomato soup over the masterpiece are facing jail. Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, both 22, threw two tins of Heinz soup over the 1888 masterpiece at the National Gallery on 14 October 2022 and then glued themselves to the wall. The oil-on-canvas painting, worth up to £72.5m, was protected by a glass cover, but the 17th century Italian frame housing it was damaged, Southwark Crown…