Drax climate protester says judge ‘bullied’ jury to find her guilty

Diana Warner, a retired doctor, outside court in Leeds. The judge in her case told the jury to try the case ‘on the evidence, not your conscience’. Photograph: Axe Drax/PA Media

A retired doctor has been found guilty of obstructing the railway during a climate protest, after jurors told the judge they were struggling to come to a verdict “as a matter of conscience”.

Dr Diana Warner, 65, told the Guardian she believed the jury had been unfairly “bullied” into the verdict by the judge, who responded that jurors should try the case “on the evidence, not your conscience”.