A Just Stop Oil protester from Suffolk has been sentenced to do community work after storming a performance of Les Miserables in the West End. 

Poppy Bliss, 20, of Thurston, was among a group of five people who disrupted the show at the Sondheim Theatre on October 5 last year. 

Hannah Taylor, 23, Lydia Gribbin, 28, Hanan Ameur, 23, Noah Crane, 20 and Bliss were all found guilty of aggravated trespass. 

Poppy Bliss, second from leftPoppy Bliss, second from left (Image: PA)

The disruption left the theatre with a bill of £60,000 after the performance was cancelled, Westminster Magistrates’ Court previously heard.

During sentencing on Thursday, Judge Briony Clarke said the disruption was “planned well in advance” and the defendants had brought bike locks, bought tickets for the show and wore T-shirts bearing the name of their cause before climbing on to the stage.

It was a “deliberate act” in which “a great number of people were inconvenienced”, the judge said.

Ameur, of Islington, north London, was sentenced to a 12-month community order, a 15-day rehabilitation requirement and 80 hours of unpaid work.

Taylor, of Dronfield Woodhouse, Derbyshire, was sentenced to a 12-month community order, a 15-day rehabilitation requirement and 100 hours of unpaid work.

Bliss, of Thurston, Suffolk, was given a 12-month community order, a 10-day rehabilitation requirement and 80 hours of unpaid work.

Crane was sentenced to a 12-month community order and 130 hours of unpaid work.

Gribbin was sentenced to a 12-month community order, a 10-day rehabilitation requirement and 100 hours of unpaid work.

All of the defendants were each ordered to pay £279 costs and a £114 surcharge.