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Daily Mirror
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Jacob Leeks

Snooker protestor is student who glued himself to painting and opposes having children

The protestor who stormed the World Snooker Championships and covered a table with orange chalk has been arrested six times in the last year.

The man who disrupted Robert Milkins' first round clash with Joe Perry has been named as Edred Whittingham. The protester from Cambridge is a politics, philosophy and economics student at Exeter University and has been an active member of Just Stop Oil.

The protest group are demanding the UK Government immediately halt all new oil and gas consents and licences. They have disrupted several sporting events over the past year, including Everton's clash with Newcastle last March and the 2022 British Grand Prix.

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