He's arguably the last man you'd expect to be serving time in prison. In his dog collar, jacket and glasses, Reverend Mark Coleman fits the classic image of a vicar.
But he's just got out of prison, where his fellow inmates dubbed him The Old Man. In April Mr Coleman, 64, was given five weeks for his part in a climate change protest that brought the City of London to a standstill.
He was one of the Just Stop Oil protestors who sat in the road at the Bishopsgate junction during a two hour protest in October. Known to friends and former parishioners as the retired Vicar of Rochdale, Mr Coleman stood down from the church in February 2022 due to ill health.
