XR protesters sob in court as Paralympian is jailed for gluing himself to a plane

A former Paralympian who glued himself to the roof of a plane at London City Airport as part of an Extinction Rebellion protest has been jailed for a year. Visually impaired James Brown, 56, climbed on top of the Amsterdam-bound plane at London City airport on 10 October 2019 and live-streamed his protest on Facebook to approximately 750,000 people. The climate campaigner told cabin crew he was going to climb onto the roof of the plane before scaling the craft,…