The protester who interrupted Britain's annual University boat race on the Thames earlier this month by swimming into the crews' path has appeared in a London court and been charged with causing a public nuisance.
Trenton Oldfield, a 35-year-old Australian, forced the boat race to be temorarily stopped, explaining later that his stunt was a way of protesting about inequality in the United Kingdom which, in his view, is perpetuated by elite institutions like Oxford and Cambridge.
Oldfield offered no plea before the prosecution appealed to have him banned from coming within 100 metres of any road being used for the Olympic torch's path, until his next hearing late next month.
