Climate Activist Wanted to Be a Human Rights Lawyer… Now She’ll Likely Spend the Rest of Her Life Behind Bars
A climate activist and would-be human rights lawyer is now more likely to die behind bars than to represent any clients in the future.
The radical change in fortune for Blaze Lily Wallace, 28, comes after a United Kingdom jury found her guilty of murdering her fiance.
A Kingston-upon-Thames court handed her a life sentence on Aug. 8, shortly after the jury’s decision was announced. Although Wallace must spend a minimum of 24 years behind bars, a judge expressed doubt that the murderer would ever see freedom again.
According to the Telegraph, Wallace was just one month away from completing a master’s degree in human rights law at the University of Roehampton at the time of her sentencing.
