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Canning Town Extinction Rebellion protester is remanded in custody

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Canning Town Extinction Rebellion protester is remanded in custody

Buddhist teacher, 36, pulled from a Tube train by angry commuters during Extinction Rebellion protest is remanded in custody after breaching a previous order not to use the railwayBritish Transport Police moved quickly to bring charges against XR activistsThree men and two women have already  been charged over Tube protests Mark Ovland who stood on a train at Canning Town is among those charged By Joel Adams and Richard Spillett for MailOnline Published: 05:01 EDT, 18 October 2019 | Updated: 11:19 EDT, 18 October 2019 An Extinction Rebellion protester who was pulled from the top of a tube train by angry commuters will spend tonight behind bars after he was remanded in custody.Buddist teacher Mark Ovland was one of a group of activists who sparked fury among passengers at Canning Town station in east London yesterday morning.It emerged today that the 36-year-old was subject to bail conditions forbidding him from using the rail network following similar protests in April this year. Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court heard today that Ovland accepts that he had breached his bail conditions and he was remanded in custody ahead of further court hearings.Buddhist trainee teacher Mark Ovland (left in left picture, and right) has been remanded in custody after he scrambled on top of a tube at Canning Town yesterdayProsecutor Zahid Hussain: ‘Mr Ovland admits to breaching his bail. He accepts that he was at Canning Town Underground Station yesterday at around 6.45am. He admits that his presence puts him in breach of that particular bail condition from the court.’But as he was remanded in custody, another Extinction Rebellion activist, privately-educated ‘poet’ Robin Boardman-Pattinson stood up and tried to address the court.Boardman-Pattinson said: ‘I’m afraid I can’t hear this happen in this courtroom that a man of such good conscience is sent to prison.’He has stood up for so many people around the world. The real criminal in this is the Government and it’s inaction on the eco-side.’Ovland was taken down while four others accused of offences over the protest were allowed to leave.Earlier at the same court, three others appeared before magistrates; Father Martin Newell, 52, Reverend Sue Parfitt, 77, Margreit Bos, 32, from the Netherlands, and 83-year-old pensioner Phil Kingston.They are all accused of taking part in rush hour demos at Shadwell station yesterday.The four allegedly involved in the Shadwell protests were bailed to appear at Inner London Crown Court on November 19. Extinction Rebellion protesters Martin Newell, Sue Parfitt, Philip Kingston and Margreit Bois leave court after Ovland was remanded in custodyYesterday as Extinction Rebellion’s eco-protest entered its 11th day activists launched a co-ordinated strike on three London Underground stations, clambering on top of carriages and gluing themselves to doors despite Monday’s city-wide ban issued by the Met Police.But their efforts to disrupt public transport were met with a furious backlash from commuters, industry groups and politicians leading one XR spokesman to admit the move had been a ‘huge own goal’.Video surfaced from Canning Town station of a protester seemingly being beaten and kicked by angry workers on the station platform having been dragged bodily from the top of a train.    Second activist as been banned from talking about PR own goal James Mee, who was also pulled down from the train, has been given the cold-shoulder by the activist group after the stunt backfiredThe second protester on the Canning Town train has said he has been banned from talking about his activist by Extinction Rebellion’s leaders.James Mee, 35, said: ‘I’ve been told by the XR press team not to speak to the media and it makes sense because I’m always saying the wrong things.’ Leaders within the XR movement are said to be ‘furious’ at Mee’s blunder which could turn public opinion further against the climate change activists.Mee lives in a rented semi-detached house in the suburbs of Bristol where his neighbours were unaware he is a member of XR.One resident of the quiet street said: ‘He deserves what he got – I would have pulled him down off the train myself if I’d been there.’I’m not sure who he thinks he is to travel from Bristol to cause chaos and upheaval in London.’Another neighbour said: ‘He lives in a rented house with a few others. He’s not there all that often, none of them are. I’ve had to take a sign for a few Amazon parcels for them.’Extinction Rebellion’s press team are expected to tell Mee to keep his head down in coming weeks after the spectacular failure of his unauthorised tube train protest.
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