I still couldn't believe we were doing it even as we were throwing the soup.

We were put in a van and that was the last time I felt freedom.

I had no idea that two years was on the cards.

If you do go to prison, is that something you can cope with?

And he said yes.

I do feel guilty because ultimately I have chosen this over her.

The single most effective way to change society is to engage in resistance

with all to go to prison.

The judge then says, right, I'm sentencing you to two years.

How are you feeling at that point?

It's a mad combination of like sadness and bravery. Like you just, you have to like, you have to accept it.

You have no other option.

So if you fight it, it's just you're only hurting yourself, really.

In August 2024, 24-year-old George Simonson was sentenced to two years in prison for climbing a gantry

on the M25 as part of a just-stop oil protest.

His parents, sister and partner were watching from the wings.

He saw his partner had tears in her eyes.

I tried to put on like a brave face for my family and like waved goodbye to them, like from

through the dock. You go immediately down to the courthouse health.

George's brave face cracked pretty quickly.

I just started crying as soon as I went through the door.

The sentence came as a shock to George. He and his co-defendants had pleaded guilty to some of the charges,

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