Jury cannot decide whether climate protesters caused public nuisance after 12 hours deliberation

Three climate activists accused of bringing rush-hour chaos to the heart of the country’s financial sector are facing a retrial. Suzie Web, 49, Marguerite Doubleday, 68, and Elizabeth Rosser, 75, blocked traffic on Upper Thames Street on 25 October 2021. Police officers claimed members of the public were left ‘distressed’ during the Insulate Britain protest. Web, of Cambridge, Doubleday, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, and Rosser, of Dinas Powys, Glamorgan, all deny causing a public nuisance. Judge Silas Reid discharged the jury…