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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damien Gayle

Just Stop Oil protesters have appeals blocked over Dartford crossing sentences

A 'Just Stop Oil' banner displayed on the bridge, with the two men suspended on ropes.
A screengrab from video footage of the protest on the Queen Elizabeth II bridge last October. Photograph: Essex Police/PA

Two Just Stop Oil protesters who scaled the bridge at the Dartford crossing, closing it to traffic for more than a day and a half, have been refused permission to appeal against their sentences.

Morgan Trowland was jailed for three years and Marcus Decker for two years and seven months after they used ropes to climb the Queen Elizabeth II bridge, which links the M25 in Essex and Kent, last October, causing long traffic jams.

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