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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Tom Ambrose and agency

Protester convicted of trespass over Just Stop Oil action in Essex

ladder up the side of a fuel tanker
Police remove an activist from Just Stop Oil sitting on top of a tanker at the entrance to a fuel terminal in Grays, Essex, on 15 April. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

A 64-year-old woman has been convicted of aggravated trespass after taking part in a Just Stop Oil protest at a fuel site in Essex last week.

Catherine Maclean, of Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex, became the first person to be convicted over involvement in the recent wave of fuel site blockades after admitting the offence at Chelmsford magistrates court on Saturday, Essex police said.

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