00:0064-year-old Nigel Fleming and 75-year-old Katherine Nash, two Just Stop Oil protesters
00:11walked into Tesla's Westfield store at about 10.15am on 12 March, poured orange liquid
00:18latex over a dummy robot, untied a banner, made political statements about Tesla owner
00:25Elon Musk, and stood around before the police arrived. The pair have now been found guilty
00:33of causing £21.78 of criminal damage. Fleming of Worcester Crescent in London, a retired
00:43tax advisor who coaches chess on Thursdays, and Nash, a retired teacher of Castle Green
00:50Close in Kendall in Cumbria, will have to split the compensation costs of that £21.78 figure,
00:59and each will have to pay a £26 victim surcharge. The shop was shut for around 45 minutes and
01:07reopened without the humanoid model Tesla bot, which had to be cleaned. In evidence, Fleming
01:14said they had been careful about choosing the target, preparing the liquid and limiting
01:22the possible impact, which is why they were surprised when an earlier charge put the potential
01:30damage caused at £2,696. This was amended to £21.78 before the trial begun.
01:40Good job.
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