Two activists who scaled the QEII bridge lost their appeal to have their prison sentences reduced.
Broadcaster Chris Packham said the jail sentences handed to Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker were "onerous"Naturalist Chris Packham said the "inconvenience" of traffic jam disruption needed to be put in perspective after two Just Stop Oil activists lost their High Court appeal.
Morgan Trowland, 40, and Marcus Decker, 34, were convicted of causing a public nuisance for scaling the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge in October.Packham said the sentences were wrong. "This does seem to be a particularly onerous and vindictive punishment and we see far lesser sentences handed out to crimes that most people would think would be far more dangerous.
"Just Stop Oil don't hurt people. They are scattering paint and litter and so on but there are no human victims of that," the broadcaster told BBC Essex. Marcus Decker and Morgan Trowland were told in April that they would spend half of their sentences in prison Packham, who visited Decker in prison, said those in the Just Stop Oil movement were "terrified" at the climate crisis and urged the public to keep things in perspective.
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