Sixteen UK climate activists are currently appealing after being handed down combined sentences of 41 years in 2024 for non-violent protests. Don't look up.

At the trial, Judge Hehir ruled that climate issues were "irrelevant and inadmissible" dismissing them as "political opinion and belief".The jury was directed to ignore any evidence about the climate crisis, and was prevented from considering whether it constituted a "reasonable excuse" under law.