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Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Phoebe Plummer, 23, receives two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident
Two Just Stop Oil activists have been jailed for throwing tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers after one of them told a judge she would “accept whatever sentences I receive with a smile”.
Phoebe Plummer, 23, was sentenced to two years in prison for causing an estimated £10,000-worth of damage to the artwork’s frame at the National Gallery in London in 2022.
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