MORE than 1,200 artists, athletes, academics, politicians and trade unionists have urged Labour to address five Just Stop Oil activists suffering “one of the greatest injustices in a British court in modern history.”

The famous names backed calls by millionaire Labour donor Dale Vince and broadcaster Chris Packham for an urgent meeting with the government to discuss “the jailing of truth tellers and their silencing in court.”

Trade union leaders and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn MP and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell MP were among the signatories to their open letter to Attorney General Richard Hermer KC.