AN Extinction Rebellion campaigner from Warrington who staged a one-man blockade on a busy street in Manchester city centre has been fined by a court.
Paul Sheeky, of Wellfield Street in Whitecross, admitted wilfully obstructing a highway with a non-motor vehicle at Manchester Magistrates Court on Wednesday, September 15.
The charge related to an incident on High Street in the city centre on May 1 this year, during which he sat in the road holding a placard bearing the message: “I’m terrified that climate breakdown will kill millions.”
Right now I am sitting down alone in a road in Manchester holding this placard to protest this government's criminal inaction on the #ClimateEmergency I feel I have no other way to get the urgency across #RebellionOfOne pic.twitter.com/CkbtRT0TM7
— Paul Sheeky (@PaulSheeky) May 1, 2021
Extinction Rebellion held a series of ‘protest of one’ roadblocks across the country on that date in a demonstration against the Government’s perceived inaction over climate change.
It came exactly two years after Parliament first declared a climate emergency.
Sheeky, 46, was fined £114 and ordered to pay court costs of £50 plus a £34 victim surcharge.
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