Four protesters who scaled the roof of Parliament House in Canberra in July have been sentenced in the ACT Magistrates Court.
Three of the four protesters who pleaded guilty to trespassing on Commonwealth property as part of a pro-Gaza protest at Parliament House in June have escaped criminal convictions.
Will Egan-Griffiths, Anthony Brinton, Thea Turnball and Barry Jessup fronted the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday and admitted to trespassing on Commonwealth property. Jessup, 68, told the court he had felt "compelled by his own conscience" to act, after seeing news reports of destruction in Gaza. The court heard Jessup had several prior convictions for trespassing in South Australia, Victoria and the ACT dating back to 2011.
"We wanted to do something that we hoped wouldn't be able to not see and not hear," Egan-Griffiths said.
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