‘I’ll go to jail too,’ says climate change protester

A Just Stop Oil activist who threw soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting told a court that she is prepared to go to prison for her cause. Phoebe Plummer, 22 along with Anna Holland, also 22, threw two tins of Heinz soup at the 1888 masterpiece at the National Gallery on 14 October 2022 and then glued themselves to the wall. Luckily the oil-on-canvas painting, which is worth up to £72.5m, is protected by a glass cover, but the 17th…