Dr. Diana Warner, 65, wore an orange flag wearing charming orange clothing when an empty 400m freight train stopped near Drax Power Station near Selby on December 14, 2021. I was waving.
Warner told the ju umpire she went to a railway line near the power plant to protest when she was supposed to be in the London courtroom, and to violate an injunction to leave the M25 highway. I faced a lawsuit.
She said the injunction was imposed after participating in a protest in the isolated UK that stopped London's orbital highway.
She told the ju judge that she was eventually jailed for two months for a courtroom light empty.
Warner said he believes the promotion received from skipping courts instead and halting North Yorkshire trains will highlight campaigns in climate emergency and other issues.
The court decided to stop the train, which was travelling at 30 mph, near Carlton's village, after finding Warner on the truck, because the train driver believed she was showing danger. I was told that.
However, he continued after the defendant left the line, confirming that his signatories were fine first.
Network Rail Mobile Operations Manager Simon Vickers said in a statement that when he was called to the scene for an investigation, Warner approached him and “confessed” that she was a track person.
Summary of Vickers' statement, prosecutor Oliver Connor said:
He said this was explained to the manager “in relation to deforestation and climate change.”
In a statement, Vickers explained how he was waiting for police to arrive, but when he didn't show up after a while, he took a photo of the defendant, and she went out to find the bus and flagged him. was offered as a souvenir.
The video was played at Warner's courthouse standing by the stationary train as she explained why Drax believed it was “the most ridiculous power plant on the planet.”
She explains that plants burning wood pellets “devour so many trees” and explains, “We're just eating forests, untouched forests.” You can do it.
While she was talking, the train was pulled away and the accused, now grandmother, says, “This is very scary.”
Warner said he became involved in environmental politics after the birth of his child in the 1990s, and eventually came to Congress twice for the Green Party.
She said she left the movement of the 2010s because of little progress, but in 2018 she “wakes up suddenly” just before retiring as a doctor.
Warner says this came when he was looking into a baby with congenital hip dysplasia and realizes that climate change is a greater threat to the child than her condition, and she does as much as she can to protect her. He said he “swears” to this.
The defendant explained her objection to the Drax Power Plant, saying that the wood was “not used to burn for fuel.”
She added: “This is our heritage, our lifeline.”
Connor opened the case early and told seven men and five female ju apprentices that it was Warner in the truck and there was no controversy that she was trespassing.
He told the ju judge: “The controversy is whether the defendant caused interference.
“The prosecution's case simply means that the train will be stopped, and in itself is a clear obstruction.”
Connor said the defendant “not because Drax is a green company, it is causing deforestation in Canada, but because he wanted to save the world.”
The court heard that the case would not cause delays or costs.
Warner (65) of Filton Avenue, Bristol, denies one count of engine or carriage blockage using the railroad, contrary to the Malicious Damage Act of 1861.
The case continues.
