Although breaking the law in favour of climate justice is somewhat controversial now, punishments like these are not going to be looked upon kindly in the future. Dark times ahead.
That’s the maximum penalty, it’s unlikely they will get that.
In your opinion, where do you draw the line as to what cause is or isn’t noble enough to break the law over? Where is the line?
Misleading headline.
Maximum penalties are only used for the worst possible cases. As far as “fraud” goes, this seems super tame.
This seems relatively harmless vs the spam emails that attempt to steal account info. Hopefully she gets off with a minor sentence at most.
I reads as if it was targeted and a genuine intent to confuse and be disruptive, even with the odd text at the end, but I agree it seems really minor. Especially as there don’t appear to have been significant consequences as soon as organisers realised he letter was out there and issued a correction.
It’s interesting the Police even considered this enough in the public interest to be investigating 7 months later, and then to prosecute at all, which makes me wonder if there’s more to this. Theoretically a judge could still choose to discharge her without conviction.
Wow. How terrible.
