Let-off for Tower Bridge abseiler

A council officer who abseiled off Tower Bridge during an Extinction Rebellion protest, causing rush-hour traffic chaos, was let off with a conditional discharge. Christopher Lewis-Farley, 52, a Tree and Landscape Officer at Malvern Hills District Council, was among a group of activists who unfurled a banner which said: ‘End Fossil Fuels Now’. Lewis-Farley, along with Oxford University student Scarlett Possnett, 19, Christopher Riches, 22, and Amy Rugg-Easey, 32, all denied but were convicted of obstructing the highway. District Judge…