Eco-Activists Jailed For Pouring Soup Over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Two Just Stop Oil activists have been jailed for pouring soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, after they came close to “destroying” the masterpiece.

Phoebe Plummer 23, and Anna Holland, 22, caused as much as £10,000 worth of damage to the artwork’s gold-coloured frame when they targeted it at London’s National Gallery.

Plummer received a two-year jail term, while Holland was handed 20 months.

The protesters, wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts, threw two tins of Heinz tomato soup over the 1888 work in October 2022, before kneeling down in front of the painting and gluing their hands to the wall beneath it.

Talk’s Peter Cardwell discusses the story with criminal defence barrister Quentin Hunt.

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[yrukdesigner]

Souperb! Good job. Now please find the rest of these loonatics.😅

[crystalabel]

Jail!
Enough of this nonsense. If Grandmum can go to prison for a mean tweet, then these folks gotta go.

[Pelleus]

Spoilt middle class kids need to realise that in the real world there's consequences.

[mariewalmsley]

Makes me want to increase my carbon footprint for spite.

[dave]

Give them 3 years like those who want to protect children from the invasion!!!

[-pressxtostart-]

Thanks for buying a tin of soup from multi billion company instead of making your own home grown 😂 good old factory processed tin of soup canned by machines run on oil 😊

[grash]

Unfortunately this takes too long this type of crime should be dealt quickly and sentence should be

[royallan]

The cell doors need to have squeaky hinges

[Iazzaboyce]

So why was pulling a statue down and pushing it into a river not a crime?

[chrisfoster]

They are domestic terrorist and should be jailed as such.

[oldshiny]

quite bizarre they get jailed but Hue Edwards is still allowed to walk among us

[bluepm]

Coupe of years behind closed doors concentrates the mind beautifully..hopefully they will grow up

[simondavies]

The fact Plummer represented herself says it all.

[elchoppo]

2 yrs in jail for throwing soup at a painting.
20 months for shouting at a police dog.
The 2 muslims at the Manchester airport incident will be going down for a 15 yrs+ stretch at this rate !

[eddiegilbey]

There needs to be more effective security at art galleries and museums. Limit what visitors can take into the galleries. And imprison the eco nutters.

[steved]

I know! Let's throw soup over a priceless masterpiece and then everyone will see the error of their ways and stop using oil. What!?

[easyonenow]

Ill have two burgers tonight to compensate and celbrate. 😂😂😂

[pershorefoodbanktrusselltr]

So, what happens if they do go to prison? They will just keep doing it because they will feel we can do what we like. Well done judge.

[mniVerse]

Wtf does an art museum have to do with climate💀

[zinniagarden]

Good that the previous people were jailed. Now jail the current ones.