The judge presiding over a trial of three Insulate Britain protesters has ruled that anything they say about climate change, fuel poverty and property insulation would be “irrelevant”.
Judge Silas Reid told the trio at Inner London Crown Court on Wednesday that – while they might genuinely believe that they had been performing a public good and not a public nuisance – jurors should not take their motivations into account.
“It is for history to judge and not the jury,” he said.
