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.Amy Rugg-Easey, 33, Alexandra Wilson, 32, Mathieu Soete, 38, and Michael Grant, 64, had been accused of damaging 15 roof slates during the five-hour demonstration at Mr Sunak's North Yorkshire mansion last August.Prosecutors said the former prime minister and his wife Akshata

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.Amy Rugg-Easey, 33, Alexandra Wilson, 32, Mathieu Soete, 38, and Michael Grant, 64, had been accused of damaging 15 roof slates during the five-hour demonstration at Mr Sunak's North Yorkshire mansion last August.Prosecutors said the former prime minister and his wife Akshata Murty were left with a bill of just less than £3,000 for repairs at the house in Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton.The defendants' trial started in July, but after the prosecution closed its case defence lawyer Owen Greenhall submitted that there was no case to answer as it could not be proved the roof damage was caused during the protest.Giving his decision on Friday, District Judge Adrian Lower said he had concluded the evidence against the defendants was "so tenuous" that no court would convi