Just Stop Oil activists cut through fence to break into Essex airfield where Taylor Swift’s plane stationed
Just Stop Oil activists have sprayed orange paint over private jets at Stansted airport on the airfield where Taylor Swift’s plane is stationed, the environmental group has said.
Two activists, Jennifer Kowalski, 28, a former sustainability manager from Dumbarton, and Cole Macdonald, 22, from Brighton, broke into a private airfield in Stansted at 5am on Thursday before targeting the jet.
Essex police said two women, aged 28 and 22, had been arrested.
They said: “Officers were on the scene within minutes and detained two people. The airport and flights are operating as normal. A 22-year-old woman from Brighton and a 28-year-old woman from Dumbarton have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and interference with the use or operation of national infrastructure.”
In a post on X, Just Stop Oil (JSO) said two activists had “cut the fence into the private airfield at Stansted where taylorswift13’s jet is parked, demanding an emergency treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030”.
The accompanying video showed one of the activists cutting a hole in the fence before spraying the paint over the jets.
In February lawyers for Taylor Swift threatened legal action against a student who is tracking Swift’s jet use via social media. The X account CelebJets found that the plane owned by Swift was the most used by celebrities emitting more than 8,000 tonnes of carbon.
