Protester tells jury to clear her because climate is a ‘moral issue’

A Just Stop Oil activist told a court she was ‘sounding an alarm bell’ on climate change when she hurled soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting. Phoebe Plummer, 22 and Anna Holland, also 22, threw two tins of Heinz soup at the 1888 masterpiece at the National Gallery on 14 October 2022 and then glued themselves to the wall. The oil-on-canvas painting, worth up to £72.5m, is protected by a glass cover, but the 17th century Italian frame was damaged,…