R v Hallam 2024: Sentences for Organisers of Protests

L-R: Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, Cressida Gethin, Louise Lancaster and Daniel Shaw were given four-year sentences, while Roger Hallam (right) was sentenced to five years.

Christoph Prössl, ARD London, Brisant, Das Erste, 30.08.2024 17:15 Uhr · Lancaster sitzt nun seit ein paar Wochen im Gefängnis. Die Haftbedingungen in der Zweierzelle seien hart, berichtet sie, es sei laut im Gefängnis, sie vermisse die Familie. Sie darf mit ihrem Ex-Mann Tim telefonieren, er ermöglicht ein Gespräch mit dem ARD-Studio London. Sie sitzen langjährige Haftstrafen ab: Klimaaktivisten Whittaker De Abreu, Gethin, Lancaster, Shaw und Hallam (von links nach rechts).

Nur so lasse sich der Klimakollaps vermeiden. Trotz der Verhaftung Hallams wollen die Aktivisten an der geplanten Blockade des Flughafens Heathrow festhalten, diese werde wie geplant durchgeführt, sagte ein Sprecher von "Heathrow Pause" gegenüber dem SPIEGEL.

The activists were convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance after they organised protests to block the M25 motorway in November 2022. Roger Hallam, co-founder of Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, while his fellow activists Daniel Shaw, ...

Judge Christopher Hehir said the defendants had "crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic". On 18 July 2024, at Southwark Crown Court, Hallam was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, while the other four defendants each received ...

In July 2023 Hallam took his case for compensation for wrongful imprisonment to the European Court of Human Rights. In 2024 the ECtHR ruled against Hallam, finding that, although the U.K.'s compensation test was "almost insurmountable", it did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights.

At Southwark Crown Court, Judge Christopher Hehir jailed Roger Hallam (57, from Wales) for five years, whilst Daniel Shaw (38, from Northampton), Lucia Whittaker De Abreu (34, from Derby), Louise Lancaster (58, from Cambridge) and Cressida Gethin ...

Initially, Judge Christopher Hehir sentenced Roger Hallam to five years in prison, while Daniel Shaw, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, Louise Lancaster, and Cressida Gethin each received four-year sentences—marking the longest custodial sentences ...

He had relevant previous convictions, including 11 between 2017 and 2024, most recently for conspiracy to cause a public nuisance by disrupting Heathrow Airport operations with drones, for which he had received a suspended prison sentence which was still in force.

The conviction was quashed at a second appeal on the basis of the unreliability of the witness testimony (particularly given new evidence suggesting greater collusion than had initially been suggested) and evidence from Sam’s phone which suggested ...

Er hatte zusammen mit anderen Aktivisten der Vereinigung Just Stop Oil die Autobahn M25 blockiert. Im Juli 2024 wurde Hallam wegen der Planung einer Blockade der M25 zu fünf Jahren Haft, vier weitere Mitstreiter zu je vier Jahren, verurteilt.

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