Four anti-ULEZ activists have been charged with harassing Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at his family home.
Martin Whitehead, 61, Nick Arlett, 73, Alison Young, 50, and Lloyd Dunsford, 64, are all accused over an incident in Tooting, southwest London on April 6.
Protesters against the Mayor’s controversial Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) expansion to outer London had gathered close to Mr Khan’s home.
They were recorded being confronted by officers from the Metropolitan Police, leading to five arrests.
Some of those accused were pictured with Conservative Assembly Member Susan Hall as she made an unsuccessful bid to unseat Mr Khan at City Hall.
Ms Hall, a veteran Conservative councillor from Harrow, had put opposition to ULEZ, and a promise to cancel the outer London expansion, at the heart of her Mayoral campaign.
Whitehead, a plasterer from Beckenham, Young, a former teaching assistant from Windsor, retired builder Nick Arlett from West Wickham, and Dunsford, from Bexleyheath, have now been charged with harassment of a person in his home.
It is alleged they targeted the Mayor at his home to pressure him into taking an action “intending your presence to amount to the harassment of, or to cause alarm or distress to Sadiq Khan”.
All four defendants are due to appear at Westminster magistrates court at 2pm on Friday.
Mr Khan expanded the ULEZ zone to cover all of Greater London in August 2023.
The move, aimed at reducing air pollution in the capital, faced opposition and a wave of protests including the destruction of ULEZ enforcement cameras.
Drivers of polluting vehicles face £12.50 daily charges under the policy, while a scrappage scheme has been set up to try to take the worst performing vehicles off London’s roads.
Last month, a City Hall report concluded that the ULEZ scheme is working “better than expected” at bringing down toxic pollution from cars and vans.
