Pro-Palestine activists convicted of criminal damage after Picasso protest

Two pro-Palestine activists who covered a Picasso masterpiece with a picture of a Gazan mother and child before pouring red paint on the National Gallery floor were convicted of criminal damage. NHS worker Jai Halai, 25, and politics student Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 23, plastered the poster over the glass cover of the 1901 painting ‘Motherhood’ on 9 October 2024. Footage played in court shows security guards unsuccessfully trying to pull the pair away from the painting as they unveiled the picture…