LONDON: Two environmental protesters who sprayed paint on Britain’s Stonehenge in June have been charged with offences associated to the alleged injury prompted to the prehistoric megalithic monument, prosecutors mentioned on Thursday (Nov 14).
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) mentioned it had authorised the police to cost the protesters, 73-year-old Naidu Rajan and Niamh Lynch, 22, and that they would seem in court docket on Dec 13.
In a separate assertion, the police mentioned the pair, from the Simply Cease Oil environmental group, had been charged with destroying or damaging a protected monument with the orange powder paint that they had sprayed on it, and inflicting a public nuisance.
Stonehenge, one in all Britain’s most visited vacationer spots situated in southern England, holds non secular significance and attracts 1000’s of revellers, spiritualists and vacationers through the summer time solstice – the longest day of the yr within the northern hemisphere.
Members of the general public had been capable of stroll round throughout the stone circle till 1977 when it was fenced off on account of considerations over injury from a pointy rise within the variety of guests.
Simply Cease Oil has gained prominence in Britain for disruptive environmental protests, with its activists shutting down main roads, disrupting cultural and sporting occasions and even throwing soup at a Van Gogh portray.
