A university student and a former museum worker remain in custody after the World Snooker Championship was disrupted by a Just Stop Oil protest. The match between Robert Milkins and Joe Perry was interrupted by a man wearing a Just Stop Oil T-shirt invading the Crucible arena in Sheffield and tipping orange paint powder on to one of the tables.
A woman was prevented from executing a similar stunt on the other table after being tackled by referee Olivier Marteel. A man and a woman were arrested and South Yorkshire Police said they were still in custody on Tuesday morning.
Just Stop Oil later confirmed the protesters were Exeter University student Eddie Whittingham, 25, and Margaret Reid, 52, a former museum professional from Kendal, Cumbria. The activist group said it was “demanding that the Government stop all new UK fossil fuel projects and are calling on UK sporting institutions to join in civil resistance against the Government’s genocidal policies”.
