I'm delighted a judge jailed the Just Stop Oil zealots - and even more pleased it's incensed Steve Coogan, Rowan Williams & Co so much, writes FRANK FUREDI

I'm delighted a judge jailed the Just Stop Oil zealots - and even more pleased it's incensed Steve Coogan, Rowan Williams & Co so much, writes FRANK FUREDI By Frank Furedi Published: 20:38 EDT, 24 July 2024 | Updated: 20:38 EDT, 24 July 2024 e-mail View comments Many of us have been yearning for the self-indulgent, unaccountable green activists who inflict mayhem on our society to be given the punishment they deserve. Ordinary people have grown increasingly incensed by these arrogant eco warriors, who believe that their obsession with the so-called ‘climate emergency’ gives them the right to vandalise public property, paralyse the transport network and cause endless disruption without facing the consequences. That’s why, like millions of others, I applauded the robust stance taken by Judge Christopher Hehir at Southwark Crown Court last Friday, when he threw the book at five zealots from the extremist pressure group Just Stop Oil who had mounted a major protest over four days on the M25.

One of the famous names signed on to an 'open letter' bemoaning the 'injustice' of the sentences is former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams The gang’s pony-tailed ringleader, former organic farmer Roger Hallam, got five years, while some of his fellow zealots — blessed with genteel names such as Cressida Gethin and Lucia Whittaker De Abreu — received four years each. Cressida’s mother was naturally upset about her daughter’s sentence and in an address to supporters o.