Climate protester walks

The founder of Extinction Rebellion was today cleared of causing damage worth £7,000 by daubing a slogan on a listed university building. Roger Hallam, 52, sprayed the walls of King’s College London with the words ‘divest from oil and gas’ in protest against the institution’s fossil fuel investments. When university security guards intervened on January 19, 2017, the veteran protester handed them homegrown salad including red mustard leaves, rocket, and rainbow chard as a gift. Hallam and David Durant, 25,…