Just Stop Oil protest: Two in court over rugby match stoppage

Two men person appeared successful tribunal charged with disrupting the Gallagher Premiership rugby last astatine Twickenham.

Saturday's crippled had to halt midway done the archetypal fractional erstwhile an orangish powerfulness was thrown connected to the pitch, Wimbledon Magistrates' Court heard.

Campaign radical Just Stop Oil said it had been down the protest.

Samuel Johnson, 40, of Reydon, Suffolk, and Patrick Hart, 37, of Brislington, Bristol, are charged with transgression harm and aggravated trespass.

Mr Hart appeared successful tribunal wearing an orangish T-shirt bearing the slogan Just Stop Oil, portion Mr Johnson wore a grey jumper.

They spoke lone to corroborate their names, ages and addresses.

Prosecutor Vijay Khutan told the tribunal the brace threw orangish cornflour connected to the transportation earlier being subdued by stewards and led disconnected the grass.

Orange pulverization remained connected the tract arsenic the lucifer resumed.

Saracens went connected to triumph 35-25.

The main outgo of the transgression damage, which has yet to beryllium calculated, was the clean-up of the powder, Mr Khutan said.

Mr Johnson and Mr Hart are owed to adjacent look astatine Kingston Crown Court connected 26 June.