Just Stop Oil protesters charged over spray-paint on Charles Darwin’s grave Two women have been charged with criminal damage after chalk paint was sprayed on Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey.
Environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil said Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh, a 77-year-old former chief executive of Reading Council from Frome in Somerset, were at the Abbey on Monday.
They have both been charged with criminal damage and bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on separate dates next month – Lee on February 11 and Bligh on February 12.
The words “1.5 is dead” were written in orange on the 19th century biologist’s grave on Monday, referring to attempts to limit global warming to 1.5C and reduce the impact of climate change.
On Monday, Lee told the PA news agency: “We are trying to get the Government to act on climate change.
