A Cambridge student has sprayed paint over the Great Gate at King’s College, Cambridge as part of a Just Stop Oil protest.

She has says she is demanding the UK Government immediately halt planned new oil and gas projects and is calling on students and faculty staff to march with Just Stop Oil in London in November. 

At around midday Chiara Sarti, a Phd student at King's College, sprayed orange paint from a fire extinguisher over the neo gothic facade of the Victorian gatehouse. 

Speaking ahead of their action, Chiara, a Phd student in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, said:

"New oil and gas is a death sentence. Young people have been completely betrayed. The government is enacting policies that will destroy my generation. We have a moral imperative to do whatever it nonviolently takes to stop them."

"I'm taking action with Just Stop Oil because I'm petrified about the social breakdown coming down the line and what will happen to me and the people I love when we have global crop failures and the food runs out in Tesco.

"I'm doing this for my niece. By the time she grows up, we'll have complete annihilation locked in. I cannot let this happen. I'm mad as hell! The first COP happened before I was even born and people are still talking about like it's going to save us. No one is coming to save us! We have no choice but to step into resistance."

Just Stop Oil has criticised the University of Cambridge in recent years for its continuing relationship with oil services company Schlumberger (SLB). By funding PhD scholarships, fellowships and a professorship, Schlumberger seeks to legitimise its support for continued expansion of fossil fuel extraction.

Cambridgeshire Police have said: "We were called at 12.13pm today (October 12) with reports of criminal damage in King's Parade, Cambridge. 

"Officers attended and arrested a 24-year-old from Cambridge on suspicion of criminal damage.

"They remain in custody."