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Mark Ovland (front), Luke Watson (top left) and Cathy Eastburn (top right) were found guilty
Three Extinction Rebellion activists who glued themselves to a train have been found guilty of obstructing the railway.
Cathy Eastburn, 52, Mark Ovland, 36, and Luke Watson, 30, were charged after a protest halted Docklands Light Railway services at Canary Wharf station on 17 April.
A jury at Inner London Crown Court unanimously found the trio, from London, Essex and Somerset, guilty.
They will be sentenced on Thursday.
Watson, Eastburn and Ovland had all denied obstructing an engine or carriage using the railway.
Jurors convicted the defendants after an hour of deliberations, but the foreman added it was “with regret”.
Extinction Rebellion, an activist group whose protesters are urging government action on climate change, said the trial was the first to be dealt with by a crown court as opposed to a magistrates’ court.
The trio were arrested during two weeks of demonstrations organised by the group, which brought parts of London to a standstill.
Watson, of Manuden in Essex; Eastburn, of St Gerards Close in Lambeth, south London; and Ovland, of Keinton Mandeville in Somerton, Somerset, have been released on unconditional bail.
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