Two Just Stop Oil activists who sought to spray orange paint on Taylor Swift’s private jet have been spared jail.

Jennifer Kowalski, 29, and Cole Macdonald, 23, had been targeting the pop star’s jet at Stansted Airport in Essex but the two planes they sprayed on June 20 last year belonged to an insurance firm and an investment group.

Judge Alexander Mills, sentencing at Chelmsford Crown Court , said: “I’ve no doubt the reason you switched to the other jets was because you had been spotted.”

He said that an aircraft refueller described how he honked the horn of his vehicle and “described you seemingly being triggered into action”.

The pair were found guilty of the criminal damage of the two planes following an earlier trial at the same court.

Kowalski, of Dumbarton, who had previ

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