Just Stop Oil supporters spray-paint ‘1.5C is dead’ on Charles Darwin’s grave

The Metropolitan Police confirmed two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage

Di Bligh, 77, and Alyson Lee, 66, carried out the protest at the grave of Charles Darwin (Just Stop Oil/PA)

Just Stop Oil (JSO) supporters have spray-painted “1.5 is dead” on Charles Darwin’s grave following confirmation that last year was the first to breach the key global warming threshold.

Two people used chalk paint on the 19th-century biologist’s grave in Westminster Abbey, London, at about 9.30am on Monday, the climate protest group said.