Six people to appear in court charged with criminal damage after climate protest at Trinity

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A man and two women have been charged with criminal damage after Extinction Rebellion activists dug up a lawn outside a Cambridge University college.

Three others have been charged with criminal damage over a protest that took place the following day outside a research building run by the oilfield service provider Schlumberger.

The glass facade was daubed with spray paint and some activists glued their hands to police vehicles.

Cambridgeshire police said all six people had been released on bail to appear at Cambridge magistrates court on 30 March.

Extinction Rebellion said the lawn outside Trinity College was targeted on Monday because of the college’s “ties with fossil fuel companies” and its role in the proposed development of a farm in Suffolk.

Caitlin Fay, 19, from Harleston in Norfolk, and 62-year-old Gilbert Murray, from Norwich, have been charged with criminal damage in connection with the incident.

Gabriella Ditton, 26, from Norwich, has been charged with two counts of criminal damage in connection with both incidents.

Extinction Rebellion said Schlumberger had close links to Cambridge University and “develops technology to drill the deep sea, drill for oil in the Arctic and frack communities”.

Tilly Porter, 21, of Cambridge, has been charged with criminal damage in connection with the Schlumburger incident.

Annie Hoyle, 26, and 64-year-old Donald Bell, both from Cambridge, have been charged with obstructing a constable in the execution of duty and criminal damage relating to the Schlumberger incident.

A seventh person, a 53-year-old woman from Bury St Edmunds, was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and released under investigation.