UK: Three anti-fracking activists become first environmental campaigners to be jailed for protest since 1932
Three anti-fracking activists were allegedly the first environmental campaigners to be jailed for a protest in the UK since 1932. They were sentenced after being convicted of causing a public nuisance by a jury in August 2018. They were released in October 2018, after their sentences were replaced by conditional discharges.
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UK: Three anti-fracking activists protesting Cuadrilla operation released
Author: ITV News (UK)
"Three anti-fracking activists released from prison over Cuadrilla demonstration", 17 Oct 2018
Three men who were jailed for protesting outside a fracking site have been released. The activists had been sent to prison for their 100-hour demonstration at the Cuadrilla site in Little Plumpton, Lancashire. But soil scientist Simon Blevins, 26, teacher Richard Roberts, 36, and piano restorer Rich Loizou, 31, were released by the Court of Appeal on Wednesday. The men had been jailed for 16 and 15 months respectively, but these sentences were replaced by conditional discharges...
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UK: Three anti-fracking activists become first environmental campaigners to be jailed for protest since 1932
Author: Frances Perraudin, The Guardian (UK)
"Anti-fracking activists jailed for Blackpool Cuadrilla protest", 26 Sep 2018
Three anti-fracking activists are thought to have become the first environmental campaigners to be jailed for a protest in the UK since 1932. Simon Roscoe Blevins, 26, and Richard Roberts, 36, were sentenced to 16 months in prison and Richard Loizou, 31, to 15 months on Wednesday after being convicted of causing a public nuisance by a jury at Preston crown court in August. Another defendant, Julian Brock, 47, was given a 12-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to the same offence. The four men were charged after taking part in a four-day direct action protest that blocked a convoy of trucks carrying drilling equipment from entering the Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool... The site near Preston New Road has been a focal point for protests since the government overturned a decision by Lancashire county council and gave the energy firm Cuadrilla consent to extract shale gas at two wells on the site in October 2016. More than 300 protesters have been arrested since Cuadrilla began constructing a fracking pad at the site in January 2017.
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