Two protestors from the environmental activist group Simply Cease Oil have been charged with prison injury after chalk paint was yesterday (13 January) sprayed on to Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey, London.
Alyson Lee, 66, a retired instructing assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh, a 77-year-old former chief government of Studying council, from Rode in Somerset, have been concerned within the motion. Each have been taken into custody at a police station in central London.
Based on the Impartial, each girls have been bailed and are as a consequence of seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket on 11 February. Simply Cease Oil confirmed that fees had been introduced towards the pair.
At round 10am yesterday, the protestors daubed the grave of Darwin, the naturalist who developed groundbreaking theories on evolution, with the phrases “1.5 is useless”, referring to makes an attempt to restrict world warming to 1.5°C, a temperature. The Copernicus Local weather Change Service lately confirmed that 2024 was the primary yr on report with a worldwide common temperature exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial ranges.
Bligh informed the BBC: “We have accomplished this as a result of there isn’t any hope for the world. We have accomplished it on Darwin’s grave particularly as a result of he can be handing over that grave due to the sixth mass extinction going down now.”
An announcement from Westminster Abbey confirmed that landmark remained open for visiting and worship all through. “The Abbey’s conservators took speedy motion to wash the grave, and there was no everlasting injury. The police have been referred to as to the scene and promptly handled the incident,” it continued.
Two Simply Cease Oil activists who glued themselves to a J.M.W. Turner portray at Manchester Artwork Gallery in July 2022 have been acquitted final October in a Manchester court docket. In distinction, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland obtained sentences of 24 months and 20 months at Southwark Crown Court docket in September for throwing cans of soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers at London’s Nationwide Gallery in 2022.