This judge needs to bone up on Streisand, Barbara, Effect Thereof.

The correct response in this case, if the judge's motivation is to support the property-owner status quo, is to declare a mistrial, or whatever the English equivalent of a jury unable to reach a verdict is, and tell the prosecutor to quietly fail to file again.

Jailing them like this is only going to amplify their message. Case in point: I'm some schmuck from New Jersey and had no idea an old British woman and a British woman about my age had glued themselves to a tarmac. Now I do. I hadn't even heard of "Insulate Britain;" now I have.