Two Simply Cease Oil eco-activists have denied legal harm after a waxwork of King Charles was smeared with chocolate cake at Madame Tussauds.
Tom Johnson, 29, and Eilidh McFadden, 20, slapped the monarch’s wax face with the cake on November 29 throughout a protest.
Simply Cease Oil posted a video of King Charles on social media following the protest, by which he says: ‘The battle in opposition to local weather change is definitely essentially the most defining and pivotal problem of our time.’
Robert Simpson, prosecuting, mentioned the harm amounted to £3,500, however a few of that worth is lack of income suffered by the house owners Merlin Leisure.
Tom Johnson (left) and Eilidh McFadden at Westminster Magistrates Court docket at present
Johnson, of Sunderland, and McFadden, of Glasgow, each denied legal harm at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket.
They confirmed from the dock that they travelled the night time earlier than on the night time bus to attend court docket in individual, regardless of being granted the correct to seem through video hyperlink.
With ongoing rail strikes and snow inflicting country-wide disruption District Choose Michael Snow joked: ‘We won’t get folks to attend from East Finchley however we will get them from Glasgow.’
Simply Cease Oil beforehand recognized the pair as Eilidh McFadden, a 20-year-old from Glasgow and Tom Johnson, 29, from Sunderland
The waxwork face of King Charles is seen smeared with chocolate cake at Madame Tussauds
Robert Simpson, prosecuting, mentioned the harm amounted to £3,500, however a few of that worth is lack of income suffered by the house owners Merlin Leisure
Johnson and McFadden will face a trial, estimated to final half a day, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket beginning on January 31.
They have been each granted bail underneath the situation that they don’t come inside the M25 aside from a court docket look.
Simply Cease Oil is asking for the UK Authorities to cease granting new oil and gasoline licences and consents.
Eco-activists repeatedly introduced elements of the M25 to a standstill final month, coated Van Gogh’s Sunflowers portray with soup on the Nationwide Gallery and even poured human waste over a memorial to Captain Sir Tom Moore.
