by Megan Howe at Daily Mail
Just Stop Oil activists who threw tomato soup over a priceless Van Gogh painting have been found guilty of criminal damage.
Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer, both 22, flung two tins of Heinz soup at the Dutch artist’s 1888 masterpiece while it was on display at the National Gallery on October 14, 2022.
The pair then proceeded to glue themselves to the wall following the attack on the painting.
Although the oil-canvas worth up to £72.5m was protected by a glass cover and went unharmed, its 17th century Italian frame was damaged.
Both Plummer and Holland refused to say who they took instructions from before they carried out the publicity stunt.
The pair had paid a visit to the museum in Trafalgar Square a day before the incident and bought the tins of soup from a Tesco supermarket in central London.
They denied but were convicted of damaging property by a jury after…
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