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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sandra Laville

Extinction Rebellion protester ‘caused £27,000 worth of damage to government building’

Officer leads away protester
Gail Bradbrook being removed from the site of the protest in October 2019. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion caused more than £27,000 worth of damage when she took a hammer to the window of a government building to protest against the environmental impacts of HS2, a court heard on Monday.

Dr Gail Bradbrook climbed on top of the glass canopy at the Department for Transport building in London on the morning of 15 October 2019. She stuck posters on the glass referencing the climate risk that HS2 posed, Isleworth crown court heard.

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