Just Stop Oil protestor under legal threat

felt that all these people had spent money on a ticket, on their hotels, on their travel, maybe babysitting, whatever.

CHAIRMAN of the snooker championships and founder and President of Matchroom Sport — Barry Hearn OBE – has said that he will “ruin the life” of University of Exeter student Eddie Whittingham by “taking him to small claims court as many times as possible” in response to his April protest with climate change advocacy group Just Stop Oil at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

Appearing on Talk TV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored in a broadcast in May, Mr Hearn announced that he was supporting at least 64 legal claims in small claims court out of the 410 spectators of the match between Joe Perry and Rob Milkins (all of whom had subsequently been contacted by Hearn).

Speaking to Piers Morgan, Hearn said: “I’m trying to think about how I can be constructive and how we can deal with it. And we came up with an idea of the small claims court. We

“So I wrote to the 410 people who witnessed that and lost the table they were supposed to be watching and said, ‘look, I believe you’ve got a claim, we will help you. We’ll help you formulate [the claim], and we’ll take this attention-seeking little boy, let’s ruin his life. Let’s take him to the small claims court as many times as possible’.” disrupted others […] I don’t really care about the money; I want to give him some inconvenience”. When Exeposé reached out to Eddie, he replied: “No comment!”. Exeposé has also reached out to Matchroom Sport and the WPBSA for comment.

In related news, climate advocacy Extinction Rebellion Exeter has announced an appearance at the Respect Festival. In a press release by the group, they have announced an appearance at the event at

Belmont Park, Exeter. In a press release, the group said: “The climate and ecological crisis, and our government’s response to it, is hitting poorest communities first and hardest, which is why Extinction Rebellion Exeter is calling for climate justice in the form of a halt to all new oil and gas licences, and a citizen’s assembly on climate and ecological justice so that everyday people can investigate, discuss and decide how to respond to the climate emergency.”

In a video message, VP Opportunities — Izzie Dyer — announced that the traditional Fresher’s Fair will be extended to a week-long event after feedback from students concerning last year’s Fresher’s Fair showed it was “too overwhelming”; “too hard to engage with societies due to volume of people, noise and space”, and “that many missed the opportunity to attend as they hadn’t yet arrived.”

Instead, there will be seven themed days spread over six days from September 18th to 22nd including: Monday — Appreciation, Gaming, Politics and Volunteering; Tuesday — Academic and Employability; Wednesday — Cultural and Faith; Thursday — St. Luke’s in addition to Active, Wellbeing and Causes and Friday — Arts, Creative and Music before finishing with the AU Sports Expo on the Saturday.

Another change will be an elongation of the Welcome period to weeks one to six of the Autumn semester in order to provide “opportunities for societies to reach out to new stu-

Morgan replied with: “I like this. It will really get to the hearts of those people, if they actually have to make such a sacrifice. They might think about the way they protest. I’ve got no problem with people doing normal, peaceful protest, but when they deliberately wreck things, when they stop people going to work…”.

Hearn concluded by saying that: “in a small way let’s just disrupt his life as much as he’s