OPINION - Juries keep letting Extinction Rebellion off the hook — here’s why

In April 2021, I was one of six Extinction Rebellionprotesters acquitted of criminal damage to Shell’s London HQ. Two years earlier, we poured fake oil onto the steps and walls of the oil major’s building in Waterloo, broke windows and painted messages that said: “Shell Knew”, “Shell Lies” and “Shell Kills”. Then we waited for police to come and arrest us. The story of how we persuaded a jury to find us not guilty, in defiance of the judge and the law, has now been dramatized for Radio 4.