JSO protesters who caused £104k of damage to the Treasury are set free by judge who says they acted ‘out of concern and anxiety for climate change’

Four Just Stop Oil activists who cost the taxpayer £104,750 when they daubed the Treasury with red paint during the Changing the Guards have walked free. Alexia Hall, 39, Selma Heimedinger, 25, and Edred Whittingham, 27,and Piers Clifford, 62, glued themselves to the fire extinguishers they used to spray the liquid over the building on Horse Guards Road. Hall, Hemideinger and Whittingham were found guilty after trial in January 2025 but Clifford admitted criminal damage at Southwark Crown Court last…