A Bristol University professor found guilty of causing criminal damage at a Government ministry in London has had his conviction overturned on appeal.
Prof Colin Davis was one of nine scientists who walked up to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and glued scientific papers about climate change to the windows, sprayed washable chalk spray on it and glued their own hands to the building to protest the Government's allowance of new oil and gas exploration in this country.
The nine arrested were from the group Scientists for Extinction Rebellion, and were charged but tried in two groups in August and October last year. The Bristol University professor was in the first group of four who were charged with causing criminal damage to the value of £2,000, and found guilty. The second group of five were put on trial in October and successfully argued that the Colston Four ruling in September last year meant they had no case to answer, so were cleared.
