A teenager holed-up in secret tunnels below Euston Station in protest at the HS2 high-speed railway is the daughter of an eccentric millionaire who owns a Scottish island.
Blue Sandford, 18, proudly posted last night a picture of herself in the illegal underground burrow, declaring ‘I put the crime in criminal’.
The environmental campaigner is the one of the children of Roc Sandford, a wealthy landowner and publisher.
Mr Sandford, a proud supporter of her and Extinction Rebellion, recently gave two daughters Christmas presents made out of rubbish found on his Inner Hebridean isle of Gometra. The businessman, who identifies as non-binary on his website and uses the pronoun They had made the reclaimed items into art and wrapped them in old newspaper.
An activist protesting in secret tunnels below Euston Station against the HS2 high-speed rail-line accused bailiffs of torture as they worked to try and remove them.
The man understood to be Lazer - real name Lachlan Blaze Sandford - is believed to be the brother of fellow tunneller Blue Sandford, 18.
Others inside the burrows are Scott Breen, 47, Larch Maxey, 48, and Swampy himself Daniel Hooper, also 48.
In a video shared from inside the burrows by HS2 Rebellion Lazer appeared to have difficulty breathing at the end of the footage.
He said: We have been down this tunnel for maybe 24, 25 hours. Since then they have kept us constantly awake via loud noises once they have been dropping dirt on us continuously so we haven’t had a chance to sleep.
HS2 protesters build network of tunnels under Euston
1/4 100ft network of tunnels underneath Euston Square Gardens in London
2/4 Protestors have taken action to defend the park and its trees
3/4 A section of tunnel
4/4 HS2 Rebellion is an alliance of groups and individuals campaigning against HS2
Anti-High Speed 2 (HS2) protesters have dug and are ready to occupy a 30m network of tunnels under Euston Square Gardens in London.
HS2 Rebellion protesters said they had acted to defend the park and its trees against the project.
It is a move reminiscent of notorious climate activist Swampy who became famous in 1996 after evading police for a week in a series of tunnels in the path of the planned A30 extension in Devon.
Protesters camping near Euston Station have dug tunnels in a bid to avoid eviction from their camp site.
The group, called HS2 Rebellion, claims its “tunnel network” is 30 metres long and took them two months to dig. They have called it their “best defence” against being evicted from the Euston Square Garden, directly in front of the station – one of the major construction sites for the megaproject.
Activists opposing the rail line had been living in tents and tree houses on the green. At around 5am this morning (Wednesday 27 January), bailiffs moved into the HS2 Rebellion camp to evict the protestors.
Can you dig it? Environmental activists tunnel 100ft under London park to protest HS2
The protesters have worked around the clock in shifts of up to 12 people at a time to dig the tunnel
Image: HS2 Rebellion
A group of climate activists have dug a 100-foot tunnel underneath Euston Square Gardens in Central London in a bid to protest against the construction of HS2, which will involve the destruction of the green space.
The park is outside Euston station, the planned London terminus for the HS2 trains – the razed area will initially be used to build a temporary taxi rank.