Three Just Stop Oil protesters have been found guilty of storming a Wimbledon tennis court with confetti and puzzle pieces.
Deborah Wilde, 69, Simon Milner-Edwards, 67, and William Ward, 66, were found guilty of aggravated trespass at London Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The trio climbed over a fence and threw something onto the court on the third day of a championship tournament in July.
All three admitted entering the courtroom but denied being charged with aggravated trespassing.
The court heard Wilde and Milner Edwards entered Court 18 on July 5 last year at around 14:10pm BST during a match between Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov and Japan's Sho Shimabukuro.
Body camera footage shown to Court showed them wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts.
Michelle Dight, director of operations at the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), which runs the tournament, gave evidence at the trial that “approximately 1,000” puzzle pieces had been removed from a jigsaw puzzle that Wilde and Milner Edwards had bought at Wimbledon. He said he threw it. Ground and confetti.
When she arrived, she said the scene looked “very disturbing” and the players “were very frustrated and probably quite frightened.”
She added: “Glitter, flutterfetti (orange), and jigsaw puzzle pieces were scattered in different parts of the court, on both sides of the net.”
Wimbledon staff removed jigsaw pieces and confetti by hand and using leaf blowers, she added.
The pair were arrested at 14:16 BST.
About two hours later, body camera footage showed Ward entering the same court, also wearing a Just Stop Oil T-shirt.
By that time, British athlete Katie Boulter had begun competing against Australia's Dahlia Saville.
Mr Dite claimed Mr Ward's protest drew louder “boos” from the crowd, many of whom had already witnessed the initial incident.
That year, the AELTC spent “hundreds of thousands of pounds” to deal with potential protests after the Just Stop Oil demonstration at the World Snooker Championship and the Ashes Test at Lord's Cricket Ground. spent, she said.
Court 18 will be a show court, with many of the top seeds playing in front of a crowd of “several hundred people” and will be broadcast extensively by video, Ms Dete added.