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Management Consultant and XR supporter Lindsay Parkin, who was aquitted of aggravated trespass at Staines Magistrates Court this week. Images: XR Surrey A man who occupied the Horse Hill oil rig in Surrey to protest the use of fossil fuels in the face of the climate crisis has been cleared of the charge brought against him. 56-year-old Management Consultant Lindsay Parkin, from Brighton, was acquitted by a judge of the charge of aggravated trespass during a hearing at Staines Magistrates Court yesterday (Thursday, April 22). As the Surrey Comet reported previously, Parkin occupied the rig near Horley, which is run by UK Oil and Gas with Alistair Sandell in the early hours of October 10, 2020.
Six Extinction Rebellion protesters have been cleared of causing £25,000 worth of criminal damage to Shell s London headquarters despite the judge directing jurors they had no defence in law.
Two of the group s co-founders Simon Bramwell, 49, and Ian Bray, 53, were acquitted on Friday alongside Jane Augsburger, 55, Senan Clifford, 60, David Lambert, 62, and James Sid Saunders, 41, after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.
The six, who represented themselves, were also cleared of individual counts of having an article with intent to destroy or damage property, while a seventh protester, Katerina Hasapopoulous, 43, earlier pleaded guilty to criminal damage.
Prosecutor Diana Wilson told jurors each of the defendants deliberately sprayed graffiti or smashed windows at the Shell building in Belvedere Road, central London, on April 15 2019.
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