Four Greenpeace activists who were arrested for scaling the country estate of former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last year to protest his oil and gas drilling expansion plans 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.

A judge on Friday threw out criminal damage charges against four Greenpeace activists who scaled former British prime minister Rishi Sunak's country home and draped it in black fabric to protest his fossil fuel policy.