Three Just Stop Oil protesters have been found guilty of aggressive trespass after disrupting a Wimbledon tennis match at last year's competition.
Three Just Stop Oil protesters have been found guilty of aggressive trespass after disrupting a Wimbledon tennis match at last year's competition. Deborah Wilde, 69, Simon Milner-Edwards, 67, and William Ward, 66, were found guilty at City of London Magistrates' Court after they threw confetti and puzzle pieces on the court.The three demonstrators managed to scale a barrier to access Court 18 at the Championships at Wimbolden in July last year, the court heard.
The activists threw "around 1,000" puzzle pieces onto the court from a jigsaw purchased at the Wimbledon gift shop, Michelle Dite, the operations director for the All England Lawn Tennis Club, told the court.The players were left “very frustrated" and "probably quite intimidated”, she added after describing the scene as "very unsettling”.
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