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Just Stop Oil activists who cut through fence in bid to spray paint Taylor Swift's jet avoid jail
Activists Jennifer Kowalski and Cole Macdonald received suspended sentences after spray-painting two private jets, causing over £12,500 in cleaning costs, in a climate protest.
- Two Just Stop Oil activists, Jennifer Kowalski and Cole Macdonald, avoided jail after mistakenly targeting planes belonging to an insurance firm and an investment group instead of Taylor Swift's jet.
- Kowalski received a five-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months, while Macdonald was given a six-week sentence suspended for eight months, both for criminal damage.
- Judge Alexander Mills stated that their actions were aimed at publicity and noted Kowalski's neurodivergence and Macdonald's autism diagnosis during sentencing.
- Cost estimates for cleaning and repairing damages from their actions amounted to over £55,000, including cleaning and consultation expenses, along with repairs to a perimeter fence.
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Dumbarton Just Stop Oil activist who sought to spray paint on Taylor Swift's jet spared jail
Jennifer Kowalski, 29, had been targeting the pop star's jet at Stansted Airport in Essex but the two planes she sprayed on June 20 last year belonged to an insurance firm and an investment group
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The two activists of the Just Stop Oil collective wanted to attack the plane of the American superstar, whose private jet trips are pointed at.
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