Just Stop Oil activists charged for disrupting London Pride parade
- 10 months ago
Five Just Stop Oil activists who halted the annual London Pride parade were today [SUN] charged with public nuisance offences.
Police made seven arrests at around 1.25pm on Saturday after demonstrators managed to briefly stop the march in Piccadilly,central London.
Images posted on social media show protestors being removed by officers.
Five of those held have now been charged with behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, a breach of Public Order Act 1986.
They are: retired librarian Ben Plumpton, 68, from West Yorkshire, Zosia Lewis, 22, of Newcastle, Oliver Clegg, 20, from Manchester, Callum Goode, 23, from Ashbourne, Derbs., and Gosse Bootsma, 25, of no fixed address.
Police made seven arrests at around 1.25pm on Saturday after demonstrators managed to briefly stop the march in Piccadilly,central London.
Images posted on social media show protestors being removed by officers.
Five of those held have now been charged with behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, a breach of Public Order Act 1986.
They are: retired librarian Ben Plumpton, 68, from West Yorkshire, Zosia Lewis, 22, of Newcastle, Oliver Clegg, 20, from Manchester, Callum Goode, 23, from Ashbourne, Derbs., and Gosse Bootsma, 25, of no fixed address.