Judge tries to cheer up moaning protester by sparing him a jail sentence

An eco warrior who moaned to a judge that climbing a gantry over the M25 had ‘ruined his life’ was spared jail today (weds). Alfred Beswick, 26, joined a series of Just Stop Oil protests last November to help bring Britain’s busiest motorway to a standstill. Beswick was seen wearing an orange high-vis jacket and hard hat at around 7:15am on 8 November above junction 22 in St Albans, Herts. ‘He climbed a gantry, secured himself to the top of…