Insulate Britain protester jailed after vowing to return to streets

Stephen Pritchard tells judge before sentencing that peaceful resistance is ‘most responsible thing I can do’

A judge has jailed an Insulate Britain protester for five weeks after he vowed to return to the streets to carry out more disruptive protests if he was not sent to prison.

Stephen Pritchard, 63, was one of the first four Insulate Britain defendants to be sentenced for causing public nuisance over their campaign of disruptive “civil resistance” protests on major roads in 2021.