A Cambridge graduate who brought the M25 to a standstill has revealed she expected to be arrested but wasn't 'even interviewed by police'.
Cathy Eastburn, 54, was apprehended four times in nine days as protesters from campaign group Insulate Britain blocked the London Orbital Motorway last week.
And even the Cambridge University philosophy graduate was surprised by the lack of police action. While protesting she set her out-of-office email to: 'If you’re reading this, it is because I have been arrested and possibly put in prison on remand.'
But Ms Eastburn was released without charge without being interviewed each time she was arrested.
She told the Sunday Times she thought her actions were 'proportionate' because forcing drivers to sit in traffic for hours was 'incomparable to the kind of chaos that's coming down the track - major flooding and major food shortages'.
Cathy Eastburn (pictured), 54, was apprehended four times in nine days as protesters from campaign group Insulate Britain blocked the London Orbital Motorway last week
The sound therapist and professional musician is a big wig within the climate protest movement. She was previously arrested for gluing herself to a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) train and once shouted at Sir David Attenborough for 'not telling the truth'.
Ms Eastburn, who is married with two daughters aged 17 and 21, was briefly jailed twice. In 2019 she was given a 12-month conditional discharge for halting DLR services at Canary Wharf station in east London.
She also had to pay £1,800 in costs.
The activist, who lives in a £1million home near Clapham Common in south London, said she understands she is in a 'privileged' position.
She added: 'Not everyone is in a position to risk arrest or risk prison,' she said. 'I think as a white middle-aged woman, it’s easier for me to go through the criminal justice system.'
Police remove activists from the motorway as protestors from Insulate Britain block the M25 motorway near Cobham in Surrey on September 21
The sound therapist and professional musician is a big wig within the climate protest movement. She was previously arrested for gluing herself to a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) train (pictured) and once shouted at Sir David Attenborough for 'not telling the truth'
But Ms Eastburn thinks she is making
