The Daily Telegraph

City council seeks jail term for tree protesters

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SHEFFIELD city council is prepared for tree-felling protesters to be jailed, a court has heard.

The council has taken four protesters to the High Court in the city. Paul Brooke, Simon Crump, Benoit Compin and Fran Grace are all said to have breached an injunction, imposed last July, by obstructin­g felling.

Mr Justice Males, the judge, said he wanted “reassuranc­e” that the applicatio­n was brought on the instructio­ns of democratic­ally elected councillor­s.

After the break, Yaaser Vanderman, representi­ng the council, said that Julie Dore, the council leader, “positively agreed that proceeding­s should be brought”.

The hearing is expected to last three days.

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