He is due in court tomorrow
A 21-year-old man from West Northamptonshire is due in court tomorrow, February 10, accused of deliberately blocking Tower Bridge in London during an Extinction Rebellion protest last year.
Christopher Riches, of Flore, near Daventry and Northampton, is amongst four protestors expected to appear at Westminster Magistrate's Court for their alleged actions during the Tower Bridge protest on April 8, 2022. All deny committing willful obstruction of a highway. A number of Extinction Rebellion protestors hung a 22m-long banner reading "END FOSSIL FUELS NOW" from the London landmark. Two protesters also dangled from the bridge by suspension cords to prevent the bascules being opened up for ships.Officers from London's Metropolitan Police were forced to close the famous turreted bridge to traffic in the City of London for several hours as they attempted to remove the protestors.
XR said they were campaigning to force the government to end its reliance on fossil fuels. In a statement at the time they said: "This Rebellion will centre ‘people power’ at its core, encouraging everyone to take part in nonviolent civil resistance tactics, where we will take action together, and be adaptable and agile to the response."
Mr Riches, alongside Scarlet Possnett, 19, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Amy Rugg-Easey, 31, of Shiremoor, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and Christopher Lewis-Farley, 52, of Malvern, Worcestershire were granted unconditional bail when they last appeared in court on November 9.READ NEXT:
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