A HOOK resident accused of breaching a High Court injunction by protesting outside an oil terminal to demand an end to new oil and gas projects in the UK, has received a suspended sentence.

Ruth Jarman, 59 and of Farnham Road, appeared at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday, September 20 was among 51 Just Stop Oil supporters who were remanded in prison on Friday, September 16 after they refused to comply with court proceedings and promised to break the injunction again.

The 51 were accused of contempt of court for sitting outside the Kingsbury Oil Terminal on Wednesday, September 14, in breach of the North Warwickshire injunction - a private injunction which seeks to outlaw any demonstrations, protests or peaceful civil resistance from taking place outside Kingsbury Oil Terminal in Warwickshire.

Jarman was sentenced to 30 days in prison suspended for two years and ordered to pay costs totalling £412. As part of the suspended sentence she must not be in the vicinity of the Kingsbury Oil Terminal.

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She said: “The head of the UN tells us we are firmly on track towards an unlivable world. The head of the International Energy Agency told us last year that there can be no new fossil fuel developments anywhere in the world. Our government is wanting to licence 130! Physically blocking Kingsbury oil depot and breaking the injunction was my way of not being a bystander to this cruel and suicidal madness. None of us need be a bystander!”

A spokesperson for the Just Stop Oil coalition added: “Last week 56 supporters of our campaign were being held in prisons around the country. This is unprecedented in the UK’s recent history. This year we have experienced the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the UK, uncontrollable wildfires and water shortages, whilst our government continues to approve new oil and gas projects in the UK. If the government won’t stop the genocial death project that is new oil and gas, then ordinary people have no other choice but to stop it themselves, to protect the lives of their families, their communities and everything they hold dear.”