A Just Stop Oil protester from Norfolk has been given a conditional discharge over the blockage of a service station on the M25.
Nicola Stickells, of High Road in Needham, was among protesters who blocked the entrances to the Shell filling station forecourt at Cobham Services in Surrey on April 28 last year.
The 52-year-old was convicted last September of obstructing people going about a lawful activity by sitting in the road with banners.
Appearing at Crawley Magistrates Court this month to be sentenced she was given an 18-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay costs totalling £322.
The climate activist, who has previously also taken part in Extinction Rebellion protests in Norfolk, was given no separate penalty for having branched an earlier conditional discharge.
The Just Stop Oil action was part of a spate of M25 protests that prompted the introduction of tougher laws.
Protesters also blocked a service station in Kent with some supporters sabotaging petrol pumps by breaking the display glass and covering them with spray paint.
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