Greenpeace Heathrow Campaigners Ordered To Pay £5,700

Greenpeace Heathrow Campaigners Ordered To Pay 5 700 (from Your Local Guardian)

Five Greenpeace protestors who occupied the top of a British Airways passenger jet were convicted of various offences in court today.

The campaigners pleaded guilty to being in a restricted zone, boarding an aircraft and demonstrating in an airport at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court. They were each given an 18 month conditional discharge and will pay compensation to BA totalling £5,700.

In February Anna Jones, Sarah Shoraka, Paul Della-Rocca, Frank Hewetson and Jens Loewe walked through an open door at Terminal 1 and occupied the fuselage of the plane for two hours, hanging a banner from the tailfin reading: "Climate emergency - no third runway".