‘Protester Removal Technician’ is now a job title
- Credit: Polly Hancock
Islington Council has brushed off claims of a secret tunnel at Highbury Corner as "just one person in a hole" - but the
Gazette has spoken to a "tree protector" who claims they have risked their life to help to dig it for the past three months.
The protester, who wants to remain anonymous, began sleeping in the trees in October to prevent seven 50-year-old trees on the Dixon Clark Court estate from being destroyed by the council to make way for a block of flats.
It was apparently after the direct action protest group Extinction Rebellion struck a deal with the council, and left the site to be replaced by the group Save The Trees that the digging began.