A JUST STOP OIL supporter has been acquitted by jury after she was arrested for dousing the New Scotland Yard sign with orange paint.

Lora Johnson, 38, appeared before Southwark Crown Court following the action in October 2022.

She was among 637 people detained by police during a period of relentless civil resistance that month, in which activists were demanding that the government halts all new oil and gas licences and consents. 

A video of Ms Johnson’s arrest on Westminster Bridge, where she proclaimed that “inaction on climate change is a death sentence for all” has been viewed more than 11 million times. 

After being found not guilty by a jury, Ms Johnson said: “I would like to ask the Met police: who are they there to serve and protect? The good people of this country? Or the oil-corrupted government?

“I would like to ask them how they are planning to police the mass hysteria, the panic, the fear, the looting, the theft, the hoarding and the inevitable violence that will result when our shelves are empty and we can’t feed our children?”