Four Greenpeace activists arrested for scaling the country estate of former U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and draping it in black fabric to protest his plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the North Sea have been cleared of criminal charges.

Greenpeace activists who were charged with causing criminal damage at the home of former prime minister Rishi Sunak have had their case thrown out by a judge. Michael Grant, 64, Mathieu Soete, 38, Amy Rugg-Easey,

A judge has thrown out criminal damage charges against four Greenpeace activists who scaled Rishi Sunak's constituency home and draped it in black fabric, ruling that the evidence was too "tenuous" for them to be convicted.