A Jewish climate change protester was among those convicted of criminal damage after gluing themselves to the offices of a coal-mining firm.

Shulamit Morris-Evans, 24, Angela Ditchfield, 41 and 34-year-old Amy Pritchard were given conditional discharges and ordered to pay court costs and victim surcharges totalling £370 each at City of London Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

They had pleaded not guilty to the charges of criminal damage – and also denied charges of aggravated trespass, which were dropped.

The trio – members of Extinction Rebellion – superglued their hands to the entry gates of an office building being temporarily used by Global Coal Management (GCM), as it was holding its annual general meeting on December 28 last year.

The court heard that they were motivated to perform the protest by GCM’s plans to build a coalmine in Bangladesh – which campaigners say will cause loss of life and contribute to the climate crisis.

Ms Morris-Evans, a high-profile figure in Extinction Rebellion (XR) Jews, told the court that her actions were informed by her Judaism.

She said: “As a part of the Jewish community, it is very scary to think about what humans can do to each other under stress.

“[The protest] had everything to do with an act of conscience, informed by my religious beliefs.”

A number of XR Jews attended the trial to support the trio, including Rabbi Jeffrey Newman, who was arrested on October 14 during the latest round of demonstrations in central London.

Ms Morris-Evans told the JC her protest was “driven and mandated by my Jewish ethics.”