- The actor, 60, overtly hugged the co-founder of eco-mob Extinction Rebellion
He performed a rugged and feared swordsman in Game of Thrones.
But yesterday Jerome Flynn reduce a really totally different determine as he overtly hugged the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.
The actor, 60, joined eco-protesters outdoors court docket as Dr Gail Bradbook was spared jail for smashing a window at a authorities division.
The molecular biologist scaled the Department for Transport in Westminster and hit the constructing’s strengthened glass with a hammer and chisel throughout a protest towards HS2 in October 2019.
The 51-year-old was yesterday given a 15-month suspended sentence together with 150 hours unpaid work – however no order was made for Dr Bradbrook to compensate the taxpayer for the injury.
The actor, 60, joined eco-protesters outdoors court docket as Dr Gail Bradbook was spared jail for smashing a window at a authorities division
As Bronn in HBO sequence Game of Thrones, Flynn gained a legion of feminine followers for his no-nonsense perspective, brawny physique and uncooked masculinity
Flynn has beforehand joined celebrities together with actress Dame Emma Thompson and naturalist Chris Packham in supporting Dr Bradbrook – however was the one well-known face to journey to her sentencing at Isleworth Crown Court.
As Bronn in HBO sequence Game of Thrones he gained a legion of feminine followers for his no-nonsense perspective, brawny physique and uncooked masculinity.
During the peak of his fame in 1996, he turned his again on showbusiness for eight years and devoted himself to a controversial sect run by American Andrew Cohen, after being launched to the guru by Linus Roache, the son of Coronation Street actor William.
He moved right into a commune in north London with a gaggle of believers, together with his long-term accomplice Anna Jacobs, and mentioned he lived ‘like a monk’ for the very best a part of a decade. He finally grew to become disillusioned with Cohen and left his Enlightenment motion.
Flynn, who has taken half in XR protests through the years, mentioned outdoors the court docket yesterday: ‘I’m right here to help my good friend Gail, as a result of I’m happy with her and what she and all of those girls are standing up for.
Dr Gail Bradbrook, 51, was yesterday given a 15-month suspended sentence together with 150 hours unpaid work
‘There’s against the law on the coronary heart of the case and it isn’t Gail smashing up this window, it is the plan that HS2 was and nonetheless is partially which is against the law towards nature, against the law towards our kids and our futures.’
Jurors took simply 45 minutes to convict Dr Bradbrook following a retrial, which passed off as a result of a choose discharged the unique jury when she continued to defy his order not to talk about her motivations. Dr Bradbrook, who wept in court docket, mentioned. ‘Where are the killers within the court docket? Where is the justice within the court docket system? We cannot see it so I’m compelled to behave.
‘I preserve that my actions had been logical and proportionate and that an absolute discharge is acceptable. I’m not a felony.’
She cited different instances involving eco-activists who had been acquitted, together with the current trial of six XR protesters who used a decommissioned hearth engine to spray HM Treasury with faux blood in October 2019.
All six had been cleared of felony injury by a jury at Southwark Crown Court in October. Dr Bradbrook mentioned: ‘Repeatedly when jurors hear the complete info about these knowingly inflicting mass lack of life they take motion to guard life.’
Flynn has beforehand joined celebrities together with actress Dame Emma Thompson and naturalist Chris Packham in supporting Dr Bradbrook (pictured)
The molecular biologist scaled the Department for Transport in Westminster and hit the constructing’s strengthened glass with a hammer and chisel throughout a protest towards HS2 in October 2019
Judge Martin Edmunds KC instructed Dr Bradbrook that she had actively sought the prosecution via her actions.
‘At least one journalist had been notified of the proposed motion and it was clearly your intention to commit against the law ample to draw publicity, and to make sure you had been arrested and prosecuted,’ he mentioned.
‘Once there you connected stickers to the constructing bearing protest slogans, introduced that you just had been protesting a couple of vary of points together with the local weather and the development of the HS2 rail line, after which used a hammer and bradawl to assault the massive pane of safety glass that was behind you.
‘You continued within the assault regardless of the request of cops to cease.
‘The pane of glass was severely broken and the price of changing it got here to £27,660.21, partly as a result of it was essential to shut Horseferry Road on a Saturday to be able to usher in a crane and cellular platforms to exchange that pane.’ Packham mentioned of the case final month: ‘Shooting the courageous messengers is vindictive, merciless, reckless and historical past won’t look kindly upon the perpetrators of this sort of ‘justice’.
‘It betrays any sort of moral consideration and shows an abject disregard for our terrifying actuality and the pressing want to deal with it. Shameful behaviour from the judiciary.’
Ms Thompson beforehand mentioned: ‘In the identical method we honour the ladies who broke home windows to achieve the vote, we are going to honour those that break home windows to achieve actual motion within the face of lethal local weather collapse.’