A group of Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters have been spared jail terms at their sentencing hearing at Isleworth Crown Court.
The nine activists were convicted of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance after police stopped them from causing 'unprecedented disruption' at Heathrow Airport on July 24 last year.
The defendants had either already served the time they were sentenced to or were handed suspended sentences.
Judge Hannah Duncan said: 'No breach of the perimeter fence occurred. No disruption at all occurred. No actual harm was caused.'
Judge Hannah Duncan told the defendants they treated their trial as an 'extension of the protest', adding: 'A court room is not a street or a town square, and it is run at considerable cost.
