Three Just Stop Oil activists have been banned from protesting in London pending their trial for allegedly throwing soup over two Vincent Van Gogh paintings.
Stephen Simpson, 71, Mary Somerville, 77, and Phillipa Green, 24, threw canned Heinz soup over the artist’s Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888 at the National Gallery in London on September 27, Southwark Crown Court heard.
It came just hours after fellow Just Stop Oil activists Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, were sentenced at the same court for throwing tomato soup over the latter artwork in October 2022.
Simpson, of Belmont Crescent, Shipley, West Yorkshire, Somerville, of Lilycroft Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire. and Green, from Penryn, Cornwall, appeared in court on Monday charged with two counts each of damaging the frames of Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888.