CLIMATE activists blasted the judiciary for having “pie on their faces” today after protesters who covered a waxwork of King Charles in chocolate cake were found guilty.

Student Eilidh McFadden, from Glasgow, and decorator Tom Johnson, from Sunderland, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday over the Just Stop Oil action at Madame Tussauds in London on October 24 last year.

The protest sought to highlight demands for an immediate halt to the government issuing new licences or consents for the exploration and extraction of new fossil fuels.

Both activists were fined £2,000, with Ms McFadden being sentenced to an additional 80 hours of community service.

Following the guilty verdict, she said: “It is clear from the judges’ decision today that the value of a wax person is held at a higher value than that of real people.

“This winter, there were over 13,000 excess deaths … caused by an energy crisis fuelled by the greed and corruption of oil companies.

“Whether or not my actions were legally ‘proportional,’ they were morally proportional and that is more important.”

More than 2,000 Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested since last April.