XR window smashers caused 500k of damage

Nine women from Extinction Rebellion caused £500,000 worth of damage by using hammers and chisels to smash bomb-proof windows at the HSBC building in Canary Wharf, a court heard. Jessica Agar, 23, Blyth Brentnall, 32, Valerie Brown, 71, Eleanor Bujak, 30, Clare Farrell, 40, Miriam Instone, 25, Tracey Mallaghan, 47, Susan Reid, 65 and Samantha Smithson, 41, all deny causing criminal damage. They sang and chanted as they shattered the custom made glass windows at around 7am on 22 April…