Two women from Bristol have explained why they deliberately got themselves jailed for taking part in a mass civil resistance protest at one of Britain’s biggest oil depots. Holly Exley, 34, and Chloe Naldrett, a 42-year-old mum of two, recorded video messages before they took part in the action and were arrested and jailed at the Kingsbury Oil depot last week.
They were among 51 protesters from the ‘Just Stop Oil’ movement, calling for no more fossil fuel extraction in the UK, in the light of the dire warnings about climate change and global warming.
Holly, an illustrator, and Chloe, a theatre producer, were remanded to prison for at least a week by high court judges in London and Birmingham as part of a mass arrest and imprisonment of the campaigners after they broke a court injunction preventing any blockages of the oil depot in the Midlands last week.
