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A Just Stop Oil protester who delayed 4,000 plane passengers by scaling a gantry above the M25 near Heathrow has said she 'would do it all again'.
Cressida Gethin, 22, was convicted of causing a public nuisance for her part in the motorway protest that caused a nine-mile tailback on July 20, 2022, and could be jailed when she is sentenced next month.
The disruptive demonstration came one day after the UK saw a record high temperature of 40C and two days after the government's Net-Zero Strategy was declared illegal.
Cressida Gethin, 22, was convicted of causing a public nuisance for her part in the motorway protest that caused a nine-mile tailback on July 20, 2022
Specialist police climbers preparing to remove a protester after they climbed an overhead motorway gantry on the M25 causing both carriageways to be closed by police
Gethin and a fellow Just Stop Oil protester on the M25 motorway gantry in July 2022
The Cambridge University music student - who has taken two years out of her studies to focus on climate activism - admits having 'mixed feelings' about her actions and would like to meet the people who were impacted by them.
In an interview with environmentalist Chris Packham for the Radio Times, Gethin said: 'I would [do it all again], but there's one thing I'd do additionally - and I'm still considering it.
'I'd find some way of meeting with anyone who had been affected by what I did, so they could tell me how they felt.'
The music student added: 'Sitting up there, surrounded by six lanes of empty motorway, I recall thinking that if the aim of the action was to get media attention we'd succeeded.
'But at the same time, the very real moral dilemma of knowing that people would be stuck in their cars and missing
